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Author Philippa Strum recounted lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s sex discrimination cases before the Supreme Court, arguing that her work in the 1970s may have been her greatest legal achievemen…

In 2005, the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated oral history interviews with 100 senior women lawyers including former Attorney General Janet Reno and…

Author and Historian Samuel Walker discussed his book, Most of 14th Street is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968. During the talk, Mr. Walker analyzed the damage done during the riots, a…

Author Melvyn Leffler talked about his book, Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015. He discussed how and why U.S. foreign policy has evolve…

Jill Norgren talked about her book Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, published by New York University Press. Belva Lockwood was the first woman to run a full presidential cam…

Author Deirdre Moloney discusses her book, National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy Since 1882. She addresses the history of immigration laws - including the 1882 Chines…

Congressman Conyers led a discussion of the legislative history of efforts to establish a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the continuing significance of the Reve…

Professor Yarbrough talked about his book David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court, published by Oxford University Press. Following his remarks, he participated i…

David Kyvig talked about the history of impeachment. He said that impeachment was rarely used until 1960, at which point it became used relatively frequently against politicians and judges. …

After opening remarks for a day-long conference on developing strategies to improve the national infrastructure, a congressional panel moderated by Mr. Capeheart talked about a national infr…

Elizabeth Bumiler talked about her book Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography, published by Random House. In her book she documents the life of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…

Moderator: Philippa Strum, Director, Division of United States Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center "Race and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Woodrow Wilson", Gary Gerstle, Professor of H…

Moderated by Ms. Strum, Mr. Fisher and other panelists considered the ideas in his book, Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism, published by …

James MacGregor Burns talked about his book Transforming Leadership, published by Atlantic Monthly Press. He argued that the Founding Fathers and President Franklin D. Roosevelt are example…

Author Phillipa Strum discussed her book, Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights, published by University Press of Kansas. The book is a case history of the VMI case, which dea…

Participants talked about the impact and legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education case. Among the topics they addressed were the civil rights movement immediately after the decision, the qu…