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Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30pm
In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties?
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.,...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
6:30pm
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Author Zachary Karabell examines Chester Alan Arthur, who was propelled into the presidency by the assassination of James Garfield an...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
2:00pm
No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Alan Brinkley argues th...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
6:30pm
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Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Historian...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
6:30pm
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Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debi...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
6:30pm
Short, balding, and soft-spoken, James Madison was overshadowed by many of America’s other, more dynamic Founding Fathers. His list of accomplishments...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be co...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between loss a...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
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If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:30pm
Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...