Experts examine the trials and tribulations of John F. Kennedy’s 34 months as president—both domestic and international—and explore why the specter of the 35th President remains ever-present in the American consciousness.
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January 2014
Audio
The Kennedy Presidency
January 22nd, 2014
1 hour
Ira Stoll, David Greenberg, David Nasaw (moderator)
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January 2014
Audio
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
January 21st, 2014
1 hour and 5 minutes
John Strausbaugh
Author John Strausbaugh explores the colorful, rowdy, and at times tragic story of the bohemian enclave known as Greenwich Village.
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January 2014
Audio
Culture Shock: New York and Paris, 1913
January 15th, 2014
1 hour and 3 minutes
Leon Botstein, Barbara Haskell, Dale Marsha Gregory (moderator)
Leon Botstein, Principal Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Haskell, Curator at the Whitney Museum, and Dale Marsha Gregory, Vice President for Public Programs at N-YHS discuss the cultural context of the 1913 Armory Show and the debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in Paris.
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January 2014
Audio
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
January 14th, 2014
1 hour
Robert M. Gates, David Gregory (moderator)
Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates delivers a behind-the-scenes account of his service under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama while the nation was embroiled in two difficult wars.
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January 2014
Audio
Grant Takes Vicksburg
January 7th, 2014
1 hour
James M. McPherson, John F. Marszalek, Harold Holzer (moderator)
Three Civil War historians discuss the operations that made up one of the most remarkable military campaigns of the American Civil War: Maj. Gen. Grant’s 47-day siege of Vicksburg.
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