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Did you miss one of New-York Historical's recent public programs? Recordings of select programs are available here as streaming audio.
Podcasts of select programs are also available on New-York Historical’s iTunes library. These files can easily be downloaded and played on any Mac, PC or portable device and even burned to a CD.
In an intimate conversation, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns joins David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, to shed new light on the military, political, cultural, social, and human dimensions of a tragedy of epic proportions: the Vietnam War.
Duration: 49:05
Historian Richard Brookhiser, in conversation with New-York Historical’s Vice President for Public Programs, Dale Gregory, discusses Gouverneur Morris’s experience at Valley Forge.
Duration: 57:10
Author Max Boot discusses his book Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam in conversation with General David H. Petraeus.
Duration: 01:00:04
Legal scholar Randall Kennedy discusses the implications of the First Amendment on college campuses from the civil rights movement to the present day.
Duration: 55:36
Historian Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, discusses Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin’s relationship with Hitler’s Nazi Germany leading up to and during World War II.
Duration: 01:02:40
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| Friday | 11 am – 8 pm |
| Saturday – Sunday | 11 am – 5 pm |
