This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment. Alan Curtis, Presiden

'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50

Jun 30th, 2020 1h 25m

Race and the problem of the public in postwar America

Feb 25th, 2020 51m 31s

Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government

Race and the problem of the public in postwar America

Feb 25th, 2020 51m 31s

Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government

The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters

Dec 12th, 2019 46m 45s

New Yorker fiction through the decades Deborah Treisman has been fiction editor at The New Yorker since 2003, having joined the magazine in 1998. She hosts the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast. She has edited the anthology 20 Under 40:

The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters

Dec 12th, 2019 46m 45s

The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History

Jun 6th, 2019 1h 3m

Health and disease history of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: two syndemics John R. McNeill is widely considered a pioneer in the study of environmental history. His books include The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History (19

The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History

Jun 6th, 2019 1h 3m

The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme

Feb 26th, 2019 46m 30s

A talk on President Nixon's radical new healthcare programme proposed in early 1971. In early 1971, President Nixon proposed a radical new healthcare programme. The Family Health Insurance Plan (FHIP) proposed a national floor under health insu

The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme

Feb 26th, 2019 46m 30s

Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance

Feb 26th, 2019 1h 2m

Winant Lecture in American Government

Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance

Feb 26th, 2019 1h 2m

Winant Lecture in American Government

Making Oscar Wilde

Feb 26th, 2019 39m 9s

Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international

Making Oscar Wilde

Feb 26th, 2019 39m 9s

Politics After God

Feb 15th, 2018 45m

The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. David Sehat is a cultural and intellectual historian of the United States. He writes broadly on American intellectual, political, and cultural life. He is the author of The Jefferson Rule: How th

The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps

Nov 13th, 2017 46m 28s

Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca

The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism

Jun 5th, 2017 36m 57s

The Rothermere American Institute’s annual Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations given by The Hon. Jamie Rubin, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.

Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory

May 22nd, 2017 49m 35s

Professor Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. His research interests are in the history of war, politics, and citizenship in modern Americ

America and the Treaty of Versailles

May 15th, 2017 59m 18s

A public lecture for a series on the United States and World War One.

Joining the Revolution

Mar 7th, 2017 59m 4s

Lyndon Johnson, the modern presidency and the Civil Rights Movement.

‘O Say Can You See?’ Art, Propaganda and the First World War

Feb 28th, 2017 51m 1s

A public lecture by Professor David Lubin (Wake Forest University) as part of a series on the history of the United States and World War One.

“Deeds Not Words”: American Social Justice Movements and World War One

Feb 14th, 2017 48m 40s

A public lecture on the United States and World War One

‘Exiled Children’ and the Easter Rising: America and Irish Independence

Oct 19th, 2016 37m 38s

Robert Schmuhl (Notre Dame) gives a talk on the Easter Rising as part of the American History Research Seminar series.

The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan

May 9th, 2016 50m

Mr Price, who joined the staff of the Nixon administration in 1969, working in the Urban Affairs Council, discusses the relationship between Moynihan and Nixon during the Nixon presidency.

American Higher Education: Observations from the Field

Oct 28th, 2015 48m 18s

Robert Scott (President Emeritus, Adelphi University, and RAI), gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on the state of American higher education.