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Emory University Professor Patrick Allitt taught a class about President Richard Nixon, his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, and some of their key foreign policy initiatives. Profe…

Professor Felix Harcourt talked about how conspiracy theories about UFOs have shaped America culture. He began in the late 1940s and described how public opinion about extraterrestrials chan…

Emory University professor Carol Anderson taught a class about efforts in the early 1960s to register African American voters in Mississippi. She described some of the leaders of the movemen…

Professor Patrick Allitt talked about the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. He described how people got there, the physical geography of the area, and the evolving technology used to mi…

Brenna Greer talked about her book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship, which focuses on print media portrayals of middle-class black Americans du…

Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt taught a class about anti-Semitism in America and Holocaust denial. She shared the story of her 1996 lawsuit against Holocaust denier David Irving…

Professors Hank Klibanoff and Brett Gadsden talked about the intersection of Civil Rights politics and violence in mid-20th century Georgia. They talk about a number unsolved murders during …

Jewish history Professor James Loeffler talked about his book, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. In his talk, Professor Loeffler profiled two Jewish lawye…

Emory University Professor Joseph Crespino taught a class on the political right since the 1960s and explored how the Democratic South became solidly Republican. He focused on the “Southern …

Emory University African American Studies professor, Nathan McCall talked about the history of negative African-American images and portrayals in the media. Professor McCall’s lecture spanne…

Emory University is host to the first conference to be held on the issue of slavery within institutions of higher education. Ruth Simmons, president, Brown University will deliver the keynot…

Participants talked about political discourse and civil society. Among the topics they addressed were partisanship in Washington, recent results of the 2010 midterm elections, the use of rhe…

Ashraf Haidari, counsellor for Political, Security and Development Affairs for the Embassy of Afghanistan spoke about conditions in Afghanistan. He talked about the Karzai Administration, th…

CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood moderated this panel discussion entitled: “Health Care Debate in the 2008 Presidential Election: Are We Hearing Enough About Chronic Disease?…

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle made the keynote address at a forum on the role of chronic disease prevention and management in the reform of the health care system. Several video …

Jack Shaheen talked about his book Guilty: Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs after 9/11. His book documents the portrayal of Muslim Arabs in American movies and argues that this portrayal, largel…

Mr. Preston discussed his new book The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story, published by Random House. In it, he talks about the September 11 attacks, the anthrax scare that followed, and th…

In a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speech titled, “What Would Martin Say?,” Ms. Brown talked about the status of African Americans. She criticized the Bush administration’s Iraq War policy and…

Mr. Brokaw talked to graduates about meeting the challenges of the future, his career in broadcasting, and sacrificing on behalf of worthy causes.

In an Affirmative Action Debate, Lee Bollinger, the former president of Michigan University and the named defendant in the two most recent Supreme Court affirmative action cases, argued “for…