Nazi Billionaires
Journalist David de Jong talked about the German business dynasties behind companies like BMW, Porsche, and Volkswagen that made fortunes during the Third Reich by collaborating with the Nazis.…
454 viewsJournalist David de Jong talked about the German business dynasties behind companies like BMW, Porsche, and Volkswagen that made fortunes during the Third Reich by collaborating with the Nazis.…
454 viewsYale University’s Paul Kennedy talked about the rise and fall of great powers during World War II and the actions of the navies of Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, and…
306 viewsJanine di Giovanni, journalist and senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute, reported on the plight of Christian communities in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine. This virtual…
385 viewsHistorian Manuel Barcia, author of, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, discussed his book with Yale historian David Blight. The…
313 viewsYale University hosted a virtual conversation with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic globally and on foreign policy. Former Vermont Governor and…
168 viewsFormer Secretary of State John Kerry and a group of former U.S. ambassadors and State Department officials discussed the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic. They talked about the…
537 viewsFormer Defense Secretary Jim Mattis joined the former director of the U.K. Special Forces, Sir Graeme Lamb, in a discussion on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic sponsored by the…
844 viewsHillary Clinton spoke at Yale University’s 2018 Senior Class Day ceremony, part of the university’s annual commencement weekend celebration. The speech included remarks about the 2016…
2,930 viewsHistorian James Oakes talked about runaway slaves and the consequences of fugitive slave laws. Professor Oakes argued that tensions between slave and free states over fugitive slaves was one of…
1,479 viewsHistorians talked about the social and political impact of several events leading up to the Civil War, including the Fugitive Slave Act and abolitionist John Brown’s raid of a federal armory at…
1,070 viewsA panel discussed race and the role it played in determining citizenship in the mid-19th century. They explored the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and Fugitive Slave Law, as well as Abraham…
687 viewsHistorians discussed Civil War-era politics. They looked at the realignment of political parties, populism, and anti-slavery politics in the 1840s and 1850s leading up to the Civil War.
1,055 viewsProfessor emeritus John Demos led a seminar for high school teachers on the Americas in the Colonial era. He explored how Indian, European, and African populations converged and exchanged…
1,415 viewsDonald Kagan made opening remarks at the fourth annual conference of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program, giving a biographical sketch of James Burnham before a panel discussion. “The Life and Political…
1,089 viewsPolitical cartoonist Patrick Oliphant and historian David McCullough talked about interpretations of U.S. presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama.
914 viewsPanelists talked about U.S. foreign policy challenges for a liberal administration. “The Drift of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenges to Western Survival” was the final panel at a conference on…
1,033 viewsPanelist talked about “Liberalism at Home and the Challenges to Western Survival,” as part of a conference at Yale on the 50th anniversary of the publication of James Burnham’s Suicide of the West: An Essay on the…
818 viewsSupreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas returned to their alma mater to receive the Alumni Award of Merit. They talked about Court traditions, technology,…
1,556 viewsRichard Preston talked about the latest Ebola outbreak in several West African countries and the spread of the virus to the United States. Mr. Preston’s 1994 book, The Hot Zone: The…
1,855 viewsPanelists spoke at a conference on James Burnham’s Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism. The conference was hosted by Yale University in recognition of the 50th…
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