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The Founding Fathers’ crowning accomplishment—the Constitution—is revered today as the touchstone of our democracy. Less widely known, however, is the extent to which the process of ratification represented a tumultuous and precarious battle between rivaling interests.
Duration: 1:01:11
Acclaimed historians of the era discuss these consequential battles of the Civil War.
Duration: 1:03:42
Celebrated historian Andrew Roberts moderates this special program featuring the winner of the 2016 Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society, Peter Cozzens, author of The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West.
Duration: 1:03:02
How does America protect the civil and political rights of new immigrants? Legal experts discuss the inclusion and participation of immigrants as active members of the body politics through the lens of one of the cornerstones of American democracy: the right to vote.
Duration: 1:02:33
Acclaimed historian Annette Gordon-Reed is renowned for her work uncovering both the political and the private life of one of America’s most celebrated Founders, Thomas Jefferson. In a conversation moderated by American philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family looks at the enigmatic third President’s vision of himself, the Revolution, and the American experiment taking shape around him.
Duration: 54:26
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