While on his frequent business trips around the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bob Damron wanted to find bars and other locales to meet other men […]
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their […]
UPDATE, 1/8/2021: With regret, we must postpone this upcoming webinar with Derek Chollet. Derek is deeply involved with the foreign policy transition team for President-Elect Biden and can no longer […]
Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, two things are clear: we are in an unprecedented constitutional crisis, and President Trump is at the center of it. In […]
A Preview Interview with Thomas Balcerski: How will the election of 2020 be remembered by history? What, if any, are its historical antecedents, and to what degree is it unprecedented? […]
A new biography published about George Washington is unlike any other. Described as “form-shattering and myth-crushing,” “keen and savage,” as well as “spirited and engaging,” historian Alexis Coe’s “You Never […]
A Preview Interview with Marcia Chatelain From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. […]
A Preview Interview with Dr. Maria K. John The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major, sometimes fatal shortcomings in the U.S. healthcare system. Through a conversation about the recent history of healthcare, historians George Aumoithe and Maria K. John will shed light on today’s crisis. They will discuss what the history of healthcare policy can teach […]
A Preview Interview with Amy Offner The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the […]
A Preview Interview with Simon Miles In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined […]
