Award-winning writer Robert Greenfield discusses the life and legacy of the influential concert promoter and legendary music impresario Bill Graham with a panel of Graham's contemporaries and colleagues.
Duration: 59:02
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February 2020
Audio
Fillmore East and the Popular Culture Revolution in New York City
February 13th, 2020
Jerry Pompili, Amalie Rothschild, Joshua White, Allan Arkush, Robert Greenfield (moderator), David Graham (closing remarks), Alex Graham (closing remarks)
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February 2020
Audio
Lincoln's Second Inaugural: The Story of a Presidential Masterpiece
February 12th, 2020
Harold Holzer
Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer surveys the 16th president’s majestic second “malice toward none” inaugural address, given at the close of the Civil War and just weeks before his assassination.
Duration: 51:20
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January 2020
Audio
Churchill and the Jews
January 14th, 2020
Andrew Roberts
Winston Churchill, unlike many of his age, class, and background in England, was a lifelong philo-Semite. He was a Zionist who admired them, defended them, and recognized them as giving Western Civilization its ethics. Andrew Roberts investigates the relationship between Churchill and the Jews.
Duration: 52:54
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January 2020
Audio
Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Emancipation
January 11th, 2020
David W. Blight, Edna Greene Medford, Harold Holzer (moderator)
Experts David W. Blight, Edna Greene Medford, and Harold Holzer discuss how Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln contributed to the cause of Black freedom.
Duration: 1:20:51
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December 2019
Audio
The Civil War Battle for New Orleans
December 17th, 2019
John F. Marszalek, Craig L. Symonds, Harold Holzer (moderator)
Historians John F. Marszalek, Craig L. Symonds, and Harold Holzer discuss the Civil War battle for New Orleans.
Duration: 55:33
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