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In the fall of 1796, George Washington announced his retirement, sparking terror and excitement across the country. Could the new nation survive without Washington at the healm? John Adams, one of the most qualified statesman in American history, emerged victorious after a nail-biting election. Unfortunately for Adams, the problems that plagued the fledging United States were greater than he first feared. With virtually no guidance from Washington, Adams faced seemingly insurmountable odds as he was forced to navigate pandemics, political violence, attacks from foreign powers, threats to freedom of speech and the press, and a hostile cabinet that betrayed him time and time again. About the Author: DR. LINDSAY M. CHERVINSKY is a presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Previously, she was a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, a historian at the White House Historical Association, and a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Lindsay is the author of the award winning book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution and co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Dr. Chervinsky has been published in the Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, and many others; she is a regular resource for outlets like CBS News, Face the Nation, CNN, The BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, and CBC News. #johnadams #lindsaychervinsky

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Alex runs the account Thinking Slow and his quest is by using facts and real science to expose and defeat the oligarchy's dystopian Great Reset agenda. http://www.thinkingcoalition.org/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

On today's show, Lee Slusher discusses Intelligence and geopolitical hotspots. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Lee Slusher is an international strategic security expert with nearly 25 years of analytical and operational experience supporting the U.S. intelligence community and special operations, and the private sector. Lee's career took him to many hotspots including Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, and Taiwan. He holds a strategic security master's degree from The George Washington University and is a 3-time alumnus of the Defense Language Institute (Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Farsi) linktr.ee/leeslusher

On this episode, Nate is joined by Peter Brannen, science journalist and author specializing in Earth's prior mass extinctions, to unpack our planet's geologic history and what it can tell us about our current climate situation. Humans have become very good at uncovering the history of our planetary home - revealing distinct periods during billions of years of deep time that have disturbing similarities to our own present time. How is the carbon cycle the foundation of our biosphere - and how have changes to it in the past impacted life's ability to thrive? On the scales of geologic time, how do humans compare to the other species who have inhabited this planet - 99% of which have gone extinct - and will we end up being just a blip in the fossil record? How can an understanding of geologic and climate science prepare us for the environmental challenges we'll face in the coming decades? About Peter Brannen Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist and contributing writer at The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, Aeon, The Boston Globe, Slate and The Guardian among other publications. His 2017 book, The Ends of the World covers the five major mass extinctions in Earth's history. Peter is currently a visiting scholar at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and an affiliate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He was formerly a 2018 Scripps Fellow at CU-Boulder, a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke University, and a 2011 Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3l81C_11D7A More information, and show notes: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/103-peter-brannen  

Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski talks about exposing Yaroslav Hunka for being in a Nazi unit, the Ukraine War, the Maidan massacre and more. Then Peoples Dispatch's Zoe Alexandra The New York Times' connection to press crackdowns in India. Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian at Harvard University. He is the author of "Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova," and the co-author of "Historical Dictionary of Ukraine." He has written for and/ or appeared on The BBC, CBC, Washington Post, The Guardian and more. He specializes primarily in politics, conflicts, political violence, and the far right in Ukraine. He teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Katchanovski was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include 4 books, 19 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 12 chapters. His three books on the Russia-Ukraine war and its origins, the Maidan massacre in Ukraine, and modern Ukraine will be published by major Western academic presses. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

On today's show, Ivan Katchanovski discusses Ukraine. GUEST OVERVIEW: Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

For the conclusion of this season, we examine conclusions: the deaths of presidents. Not just presidents who died while in office, but those who died years after they retired from the presidency and the constant limelight. Our journey through the lives, deaths, and legacies of our presidents from 1799 to today offers surprising revelations about the constancy of mourning and the role of the president beyond the Oval Office. Beyond exploring the moment of a president's death, we explore the deeper historical context of that moment, and what we can learn about American society at the time. Presidents are more than just a man. They are figureheads of movements, international celebrities, and representatives (sometimes even unwillingly) of particular political and social values. And their deaths often reveal much not just about how Americans come together, but how they remain divided.Guiding our final conversation this season are Lindsay Chervinsky and Matthew Costello, presidential historians and co-editors of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Lindsay Chervinsky is a historian of the presidency, political culture, and the government. Dr. Chervinsky is a frequent contributor to publications like the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post. She is also a regular guests on podcasts, such as the Thomas Jefferson Hour, and created the Audible course The Best and Worst Presidential Cabinets in U.S. History. Dr. Chervinsky is currently a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History here at SMU.She is the co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture, the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, and author of the forthcoming An Honest Man: The Inimitable Presidency of John Adams. Visit her website lindsaychervinsky.com and her Twitter @lmchervinsky.  Matthew Costello is a presidential historian specializing in the American Revolution and the early republic. Dr. Costello serves as Vice President of the David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History and Senior Historian for the White House Historical Association. He also teaches a class at American University and has received research fellowships from Marquette University, the Virginia Historical Society, the United States Capitol Historical Society, and the Fred W. Smith National Library at Mount Vernon. After completing his Ph.D. in American history at Marquette University, Dr. Costello worked on the George Washington Bibliography Project for the George Washington Papers at the University of Virginia.He is the author of The Property of the Nation: George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President, which was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize, and co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture.Visit his website on whitehousehistory.org and his LinkedIn @matthewcostello.  

A Presidency is defined by the decisions that a person makes while serving as Executive, but a Presidential legacy is about much more than that. In the new book, Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture, (UVA Press, 2023) Lindsay Chervinsky and Matthew Costello have brought together a collection of chapters that explore the ways that mourning ceremonies, causes of death, and moments of passing impact the way that we remember a President at the time they die, and how new research and a more inclusive understanding of US history have reshaped Presidential legacies in the years that follow. In this episode, Lindsay joins Ben and Bob for a conversation about some of the fascinating stories crafted by the book's contributing authors and how the legacies of George Washington, FDR, Ronald Reagan, and other former commanders-in-chief, might tell us more about ourselves than the individuals who have served as President. Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky is a historian of the American Presidency who is currently a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Her first book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution (Belknap Press, 2020) won multiple awards and was the topic of our conversation for her first appearance on The Road to Now in episode 184. You can learn more about Lindsay and her work at her website: LindsayChervinsky.com If you enjoyed this episode, you'll probably also like our conversation with Jeffrey Engle on the history of Presidential impeachment (RTN episode 109). This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lindsay Chervinsky about death and mourning of U.S. Presidents. They discuss how the book came about and how certain essays were chosen for the volume. They talk about the themes of race, political party, and family. They discuss the ideas of legacy, and how U.S. presidential funerals compare with other global heads of state. They talk about Washington and his private funeral, Jefferson and his descendants, Taylor and his mixed legacy, and the global impact of Lincoln. They also discuss Theodore Roosevelt through a current lens, generational impact of FDR and JFK, the long goodbye of Reagan, the bipartisan mourning of H.W. Bush, and many other topics. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is a historian, author, and speaker. She obtained her PhD in history from the University of California, Davis and is a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. She has also been a professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. She is the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and The Creation of An American Institution and co-editor (with Matthew R. Costello) of Mourning The Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. You can find her work at her website and on her substack, . Twitter: @lmchervinsky This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit convergingdialogues.substack.com

This week Historians At The Movies gets into Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. And I've got two of the best damn historians working today to talk about it. And yes, we're ranking the hottest presidents of all time.About our guests: Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and currently is a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. She received her B.A. with honors in history and political science from George Washington University, her masters and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and her postdoctoral fellowship from Southern Methodist University. Previously Dr. Chervinsky worked as a historian at the White House Historical Association. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Bulwark, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN, NBC Think, and the Washington Post. Dr. Chervinsky is the author of the award-winning book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, recently out in paperback, and the forthcoming book An Honest Man: The Inimitable Presidency of John Adams.Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is a historian and writer, with a BA from Harvard and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa. She is the author of four books: Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner 2022); The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020; finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History); Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia, 2012); and Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (Georgia, 2005). Megan writes about the Civil War, the U.S. West, and American culture for The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and TIME. For several years, she also wrote movie and TV series reviews for the Civil War Monitor. Before leaving academia to write full-time in 2014, Megan taught U.S. history and American Studies at Texas Tech University, Cal State Fullerton, Harvard, and Brown. She grew up in Colorado but now lives outside Boston with her husband and two cats. 

Today we are joined by Prof. Ivan Katchanovski. Prof. Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He has held academic positions at Harvard University, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the University of Toronto, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He specializes in researching politics and conflicts in his native Ukraine. His publications include three books and numerous articles. Ivan is currently researching and writing a book about the Maidan Massacre that occurred on 18 February 2014. More specifically, Prof. Katchanovski is investigating who carried out the attack and if the United States and other western governments were involved in the planning with the far-right (formerly Neo-Nazi) political party Svoboda to initiate regime change. He will be presenting his findings this fall at the 118th American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Montreal. You can find more about Ivan on his University of Ottawa profile, his ResearchGate profile and his Twitter @I_Katchanovski. Due to the dense nature of this episode's topic, we have included a full transcript for reference on our website riksmind.com/listen/91ivankatchanovskiShow Notes:Ivan Katchanovski | University of OttawaIvan Katchanovski | TwitterIvan Katchanovski | Research GateKatchanovski, Ivan, The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Investigation (November 29, 2021) | SSRNLies About Ukraine Conflict Are Standing in the Way of a Peaceful Resolution | TruthoutUkraine-Russia crisis: What is the Minsk agreement? | Al JazeeraSvoboda: The rise of Ukraine's ultra-nationalists | BBC NewsThe "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine, Ivan Katchanovski, Sept 2015 | Research GateAre Ukraine's vast natural resources a real reason behind Russia's invasion? | Business TodayCleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova by Ivan Katchanovski | Columbia University Press

My guest this month is Ananya Vajpeyi (read more about her and her main publications here). Her current academic home is the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi. As you will hear, I did not have a lot of work this time: Ananya only required minimal prompting to tell me the story of her life so far, which spans several countries in three continents and many fascinating encounters in and around academia. Ananya's many teachers include Arindam Chakrabarti, Madhu Khanna, Robert Young, Alexis Sanderson, Jim Benson, Matthew Kapstein, Patrick Olivelle, David Shulman,  Sheldon Pollock, Gayatri Spivak and Wendy Doniger. She has worked closely with Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashis Nandy and Rajeev Bhargava.She studied and did research at Lady Shri Ram College, the School of Languages at JNU, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, the University of Pune, Deccan College and the Bhandarkar Institute.Read more about Ferdinand de Saussure and his Course in General Linguistics, the volume resulting from the 'Ideology and Status of Sanskrit conference; about shudras, Shivaji, Ambedkar and Jim Laine; the Murty Library and the controversy around its editor; and about the fellowships at the Kluge Center and at CRASSH. 

Tyler chats with Gregg Jones, an award-winning investigative journalist and international news correspondent, Pulitzer Prize finalist, a fellow at the Kluge Center and Black Mountain Institute, and a Botstiber Foundation grant recipient. He is the author of three acclaimed nonfiction books, Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and The Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream (NAL/Penguin, 2012) was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Last Stand at Khe Sanh (Da Capo/Perseus, 2014) received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for Distinguished Nonfiction. His first book, Red Revolution: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement (Westview, 1989), was praised by James Fallows in The Atlantic as a work of "prodigious, often brave reporting" and "an engrossing and highly informative book."In this episode, Tyler and Gregg dive deep into the history of the Last Stand of Khe Sanh and the heroism and bravery of our Marines under unfathomable circumstances. Based largely on interviews with the Marines who were there, the Last Stand at Khe Sanh stands as a remarkable record of what they did within this 77 day long siege.  A moment in history we should never forget!"A honorable salute to the sacrifice, heroism and courage of our boys from Pawnee, Scranton, Yonkers, Wilmington and thousands of other small towns that produce our nation's finest. There is a reason why they are called “The Few and The Proud”. Last Stand at Khe Sanh is available on Amazon.Stay up to date and gain early access to new podcasts and upcoming events by signing up for our newsletter at Coming Home Well Newsletter Check out our other podcasts: Beyond The Frontline, Be Crazy WellFollow us on IG @cominghomwell_bts and @behindtheserviceFacebook at Coming Home Well or Behind The ServiceLinkedIn at Coming Home WellSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=DPPU22JG5EM6Y)

Supporting the Faith, Building the Empire: Imperial Japan’s Islamic Policies in World War II   Friday, March 5, 2021 Hoover Institution, Stanford University   Leading up to and through World War II, the Japanese Empire curried favor with Muslims in China and in East Asia. Drawing on examples from Prof. Hammond’s recent book, China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II, the talk discusses Japanese policies and the ways in which the Japanese Government saw itself as the protector of Islam, while simultaneously advancing its imperial vision. For their part, Muslims from the colonial world found Japan’s anti-Western and anti-Soviet rhetoric appealing to a certain extent. By placing Muslims at the center of Japan’s imperial ambitions, it becomes clear that those ambitions extended beyond the boundaries of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and into predominantly Islamic spaces like Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Kelly Hammond is Assistant Professor of East Asian history at the University of Arkansas, an associate editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, and serves on the Public Intellectual Program for the National Committee on US-China Relations. Her recent work has been supported by the ACLS/Luce Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the American Philosophical Foundation, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. ABOUT THE PROGRAM This talk is part of the History Working Group Seminar Series. A central piece of the History Working Group is the seminar series, which is hosted in partnership with the Hoover Library & Archives. The seminar series was launched in the fall of 2019, and thus far has included six talks from Hoover research fellows, visiting scholars, and Stanford faculty. The seminars provide outside experts with an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback on their work. While the lunch seminars have grown in reputation, they have been purposefully kept small in order to ensure that the discussion retains a good seminar atmosphere.

In this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution James Goldgeier and Professor Bruce W. Jentleson of Duke University, to discuss where America sits in the pecking order when it comes to global superpowers, as well as to consider the influence and appropriacy of its foreign policy. James Goldgeier is a Robert Bosch Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and a Professor at the School of International Service at American University, where he served as Dean from 2011-17. In 2018-19, he held the Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-Russia Relations at the John W. Kluge Center and was a visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining American University, he was a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, where from 2001-05 he directed the Elliott School’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. He also taught at Cornell University, and has held a number of public policy appointments and fellowships, including Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, and Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as appointments or fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He currently serves as a member of the State Department Historical Advisory Committee, which reviews records, advises, and makes recommendations to the Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, concerning the Foreign Relations of the United States documentary series. Bruce W. Jentleson is William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke University, where he previously served as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute (now Sanford School) of Public Policy. In 2015-16 he was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. He received the 2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) International Security Section Joseph J. Kruzel Award for Distinguished Public Service. In 2020 he will be the Desmond Ball Visiting Professor at Australia National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, and Visiting Professor, Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Una plática y reflexión con el Dr. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado sobre la autenticidad de la gastronomía Mexicana y las discusiones sobre la apropiación cultural. Temáticas además relacionadas con la comercialización de las bebidas destiladas de agave en los Estados Unidos de América. Bio Ocupa la cátedra Jarvis Thurston y Mona van Duyn en Humanidades en Washington University in St Louis. En su trabajo investiga las relaciones entre instituciones culturales, ideología, representación y estética, con enfoque en literatura, cine y gastronomía. Ha publicado veinte libros y más de cien artículos sobre estas temáticas. En gastronomía, estudia cuestiones relacionadas con las ideologías de autenticidad y la historia cultural de la comida mexicana. Aquí su website He is the author of El canon y sus formas: La reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (2002), Poesía para nada (2005), Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959) (2009. Winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Book Award), Intermitencias americanistas. Estudios y ensayos escogidos (2004-2010) (2012), Screening Neoliberalism. Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (2014), Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (2018), and Intermitencias alfonsinas. Estudios y otros textos (2019). He is currently working on book-length studies on cosmopolitanism and genre in mid-century, and on the question of transnationalism in Mexican cinema. Prof. Sánchez Prado has edited several book collections: Alfonso Reyes y los estudios latinoamericanos (with Adela Pineda Franco, 2004), América Latina en la “literatura mundial” (2006), América Latina, Giro óptico (2006), El arte de la ironía. Carlos Monsiváis ante la crítica (with Mabel Moraña, 2007), Arqueologías del centauro. Ensayos sobre Alfonso Reyes (2009), Entre Hombres. Masculinidades del siglo XIX latinoamericano (with Ana Peluffo, 2010); El lenguaje de las emociones. Afectoy cultura en América Latina (with Mabel Moraña, 2012), La literatura en los siglos XIX y XX (with Antonio Saborit and Jorge Ortega, 2013), Heridas abiertas. Biopolítica y cultura en América Latina (with Mabel Moraña, 2014), Democracia, otredad, melancolía. Roger Bartra ante la crítica (with Mabel Moraña 2015) and A History of Mexican Literature (with Anna Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra), Mexican Literature in Theory (2018) and Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture (2018). Prof. Sánchez Prado is co-editor, with Leslie Marsh, of the SUNY Press Series on Latin American Cinema and editor of the series Critical Mexican Studies in Vanderbilt University Press. Prof. Sánchez Prado has served as President of the Division of Latin American Literatures and Cultures and the Discussion Group of Mexican Cultural Studies at the Modern Language Association, as well as co-chair of the Mexico Section at the Latin American Studies Association. He currently serves in the steering committee of UC Mexicanistas and in the Executive Council of the MLA. He is a member of the editorial board of various journals, including PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Forma, Chasqui, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, ASAP/Journal, and Confluencia. He is the President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Professor Sánchez Prado has been appointed the Chair of the Cultures of the South by the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and will serve his term in the Summer of 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ana-g-valenzuela-zapata/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ana-g-valenzuela-zapata/support

Ariel Ron is the Glenn M. Linden Assistant Professor of the US Civil War Era at Southern Methodist University. He focuses on the interplay of politics and economics in nineteenth-century America. Dr. Ron has published several articles in scholarly venues such as the Journal of American History and his book, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic, forthcoming from the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia from Johns Hopkins University Press in November 2020. His research has been supported by the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and the Library of Congress’s Kluge Center. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ron was a PEAES Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia in 2008 and 2012. This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, September 10, 2020.

On the morning of January 21, Marines at Khe Sanh Combat Base realized they were surrounded by the North Vietnamese Army and the only road leading to the base was cut off. Over the next 4 months, Marines would fend off multiple attacks in the various outposts surrounding the area and the base itself. By the time soldiers from the First Cavalry Division broke the siege, Over 100,000 tons of bombs were dropped by US aircraft and over 158,000 artillery rounds were fired in defense of the base. To explain the significance of the battle and its impact on the Vietnam War, we interview Gregg Jones who is an award-winning investigative journalist and international news correspondent. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a fellow at the Kluge Center and Black Mountain Institute, and a Botstiber Foundation grant recipient. He is the author of three acclaimed nonfiction books. Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and The Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Last Stand at Khe Sanh received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for Distinguished Nonfiction. 

Welcome to our first "Rogue Wave!" These are specials that deviate from our regular episodes and focus more on the intellectual and inquisitive side of faith. We welcome the immensely talented Dr. Lester Vogel as our first "Rogue." Les earned his bachelor’s degree at Yeshiva University and Masters degree in Library Service at Rutgers University prior to beginning a 36 year career with the Library of Congress. While working full time, he earned his PhD in American Cultural History at George Washington University, and was awarded a year-long Fulbright scholarship to continue his research, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, with the approval of a leave of absence from the Library. Dr. Vogel is the author of “To See a Promised Land” which explores the relationship between American Christians and the Holy Land in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Upon return to the U.S. and the Library, he advanced through several positions and concluded his service on Capitol Hill as Special Assistant to the Director of Scholarly Programs, a job that was tasked with establishing and operating the John W. Kluge Center. He has been an adjunct professor of Jewish Studies at McDaniel College since 2012. Les is the father of two daughters and grandfather of ten children who reside in the U.S. and in Israel. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to our first "Rogue Wave!" These are specials that deviate from our regular episodes and focus more on the intellectual and inquisitive side of faith. We welcome the immensely talented Dr. Lester Vogel as our first "Rogue." Les earned his bachelor’s degree at Yeshiva University and Masters degree in Library Service at Rutgers University prior to beginning a 36 year career with the Library of Congress. While working full time, he earned his PhD in American Cultural History at George Washington University, and was awarded a year-long Fulbright scholarship to continue his research, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, with the approval of a leave of absence from the Library. Dr. Vogel is the author of “To See a Promised Land” which explores the relationship between American Christians and the Holy Land in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Upon return to the U.S. and the Library, he advanced through several positions and concluded his service on Capitol Hill as Special Assistant to the Director of Scholarly Programs, a job that was tasked with establishing and operating the John W. Kluge Center. He has been an adjunct professor of Jewish Studies at McDaniel College since 2012. Les is the father of two daughters and grandfather of ten children who reside in the U.S. and in Israel. Stay tuned for part 2 coming next week! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You're about to hear from author and playwright Jim Reston, who graduated in the Morehead-Cain Class of 1963. Jim is from Washington, D.C. and has been not only an eyewitness to major historical events of the last few decades, but actually participated in them: from the Civil Rights movement, to the Vietnam War, to the Watergate scandal, and more. Jim's father was James Reston Sr, a prominent New York Times journalist and editor—but Jim managed to blaze his own trail in the writing world. Jim has published eighteen books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. His various works have been translated into many different languages, optioned by Hollywood, and included on international best-seller lists. From 1976 to 1977, Jim advised David Frost for the famous Frost/Nixon Interviews, which 57 million people watched from around the world. His narrative of that experience, published in 2007, was the main inspiration for the hit London play, "Frost/Nixon." In the Hollywood adaptation of the play, which was nominated for five Academy Awards, Jim's character is played by the actor Sam Rockwell. Jim has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz's Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz's study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies. His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East's history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz's Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz's study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies. His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East's history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz’s study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.  He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies.  His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz’s study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.  He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies.  His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz’s study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.  He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies.  His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz’s study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.  He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies.  His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz’s study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.  He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies.  His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent years have seen new waves of research in Syriac studies, the medieval Middle East, and family history. Combining all three, Lev Weitz’s Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), revisits the early years of Islamic civilization by looking at an oft-neglected population in the secondary literature, Syriac Christians. Weitz’s study uses marital practice from the seventh through tenth centuries to illustrate how Islamic law influenced the development of Christian law and the role religious authorities –that is the Christian bishops– had to play in it. We talk through polygamy, confessional boundaries, and what households meant now and then; Weitz also fills us in on what the growing field of Syriac studies looks like, how it is changing, and how a scholar of the medieval Middle East gets their sources. Lev Weitz is an historian of the Islamic Middle East. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, in the Department of History; he also directs the Islamic World Studies program at Catholic University. For academic year 2018-19, he will be a fellow of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.  He did his PhD at Princeton University at the Department of Near Easter Studies.  His scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the Middle East’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Bartig’s new book Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (Oxford University Press, 2017) explores multiple facets of one of the most famous film scores of the twentieth century, as well as the cantata Prokofiev adapted from the original music. Sergei Eisenstein’s classic film Alexander Nevsky, about a thirteenth-century Russian national hero who defeated the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire, premiered in July 1938 in the Soviet Union amid rising tensions with Nazi Germany. While Eisenstein’s film was a propaganda piece designed to encourage Soviet patriotism at a time of growing fears about the Nazi regimes aggression, it is also one of the great motion pictures of the twentieth century because of its technical mastery and climactic half-hour Battle of the Ice scene. Using extensive archival sources, Bartig recounts the unusually close collaboration between Eisenstein and Prokofiev that produced the score, the investigates the music’s reception in Russia and abroad from its premiere until today, and explores questions raised by the connections between music and politics. Part of the Oxford University Press’s new Keynotes series, the relatively short book uses the close analysis of one work to examine Soviet cultural politics, the creation of film scores, the power of accessible music, and the afterlife of works of propaganda after their original contexts disappear. Kevin Bartig is an associate professor of musicology at Michigan State University and specializes in music and culture in Eastern Europe and the US. He has received multiple grants and fellowships including awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He was also a Lilly Teaching Fellow during the 2011-12 academic year. His publications include Composing for the Red Screen: Sergey Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Oxford University Press, 2013), as well as articles, reviews, and essays in several collected editions. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Bartig's new book Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (Oxford University Press, 2017) explores multiple facets of one of the most famous film scores of the twentieth century, as well as the cantata Prokofiev adapted from the original music. Sergei Eisenstein's classic film Alexander Nevsky, about a thirteenth-century Russian national hero who defeated the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire, premiered in July 1938 in the Soviet Union amid rising tensions with Nazi Germany. While Eisenstein's film was a propaganda piece designed to encourage Soviet patriotism at a time of growing fears about the Nazi regimes aggression, it is also one of the great motion pictures of the twentieth century because of its technical mastery and climactic half-hour Battle of the Ice scene. Using extensive archival sources, Bartig recounts the unusually close collaboration between Eisenstein and Prokofiev that produced the score, the investigates the music's reception in Russia and abroad from its premiere until today, and explores questions raised by the connections between music and politics. Part of the Oxford University Press's new Keynotes series, the relatively short book uses the close analysis of one work to examine Soviet cultural politics, the creation of film scores, the power of accessible music, and the afterlife of works of propaganda after their original contexts disappear. Kevin Bartig is an associate professor of musicology at Michigan State University and specializes in music and culture in Eastern Europe and the US. He has received multiple grants and fellowships including awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He was also a Lilly Teaching Fellow during the 2011-12 academic year. His publications include Composing for the Red Screen: Sergey Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Oxford University Press, 2013), as well as articles, reviews, and essays in several collected editions. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections.

Kevin Bartig’s new book Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (Oxford University Press, 2017) explores multiple facets of one of the most famous film scores of the twentieth century, as well as the cantata Prokofiev adapted from the original music. Sergei Eisenstein’s classic film Alexander Nevsky, about a thirteenth-century Russian national hero who defeated the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire, premiered in July 1938 in the Soviet Union amid rising tensions with Nazi Germany. While Eisenstein’s film was a propaganda piece designed to encourage Soviet patriotism at a time of growing fears about the Nazi regimes aggression, it is also one of the great motion pictures of the twentieth century because of its technical mastery and climactic half-hour Battle of the Ice scene. Using extensive archival sources, Bartig recounts the unusually close collaboration between Eisenstein and Prokofiev that produced the score, the investigates the music’s reception in Russia and abroad from its premiere until today, and explores questions raised by the connections between music and politics. Part of the Oxford University Press’s new Keynotes series, the relatively short book uses the close analysis of one work to examine Soviet cultural politics, the creation of film scores, the power of accessible music, and the afterlife of works of propaganda after their original contexts disappear. Kevin Bartig is an associate professor of musicology at Michigan State University and specializes in music and culture in Eastern Europe and the US. He has received multiple grants and fellowships including awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He was also a Lilly Teaching Fellow during the 2011-12 academic year. His publications include Composing for the Red Screen: Sergey Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Oxford University Press, 2013), as well as articles, reviews, and essays in several collected editions. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Bartig’s new book Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (Oxford University Press, 2017) explores multiple facets of one of the most famous film scores of the twentieth century, as well as the cantata Prokofiev adapted from the original music. Sergei Eisenstein’s classic film Alexander Nevsky, about a thirteenth-century Russian national hero who defeated the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire, premiered in July 1938 in the Soviet Union amid rising tensions with Nazi Germany. While Eisenstein’s film was a propaganda piece designed to encourage Soviet patriotism at a time of growing fears about the Nazi regimes aggression, it is also one of the great motion pictures of the twentieth century because of its technical mastery and climactic half-hour Battle of the Ice scene. Using extensive archival sources, Bartig recounts the unusually close collaboration between Eisenstein and Prokofiev that produced the score, the investigates the music’s reception in Russia and abroad from its premiere until today, and explores questions raised by the connections between music and politics. Part of the Oxford University Press’s new Keynotes series, the relatively short book uses the close analysis of one work to examine Soviet cultural politics, the creation of film scores, the power of accessible music, and the afterlife of works of propaganda after their original contexts disappear. Kevin Bartig is an associate professor of musicology at Michigan State University and specializes in music and culture in Eastern Europe and the US. He has received multiple grants and fellowships including awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He was also a Lilly Teaching Fellow during the 2011-12 academic year. His publications include Composing for the Red Screen: Sergey Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Oxford University Press, 2013), as well as articles, reviews, and essays in several collected editions. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we present a conversation Al Zambone had with Jason Steinhauer, a public historian and Program Specialist at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Jason is also a provocateur and intellectual entrepreneur, who for the last two years has been agitating for the creation of a field he has dubbed "history communication". What is this "history communication", you ask? What inspired the idea? What's it for? Why bother? And what separates it from history as it is currently done? Well, give a listen, and you'll find out all that, and more. It's good to be back! For Further Investigation The webpage of Jason Steinhauer History Communicators on YouTube  History Communicators: all you need to know about the concept National Council on Public History Syllabus: Introduction to History Communication Clio: the history app  

May 5, 2016. Four medical researchers at the forefront of developing treatments for depression present new findings in a special conference held at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. The program was part of the annual meeting of the Library of Congress Scholars Council. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7417

April 26, 2016. David Hollenbach discusses the number of people displaced by war and other crises, which today is higher than at any time since World War II, and the responsibilities of the U.S., of other nations, and of nongovernmental organizations and religious communities to assist these people. Speaker Biography: David Hollenbach is Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. He is the university chair in human rights and international justice at Boston College, where he is also the director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He was educated at St. Joseph's University with a B.S. in Physics, and then an M.A. from St. Louis University, and a Ph.D. in Religious Ethics from Yale University. Hollenbach has published extensively on Christian ethics, Christian social ethics, human rights, refugees, contemporary theories of justice and the role of religion in public life. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7360

Nov. 12, 2015. Three fellows at the Library's John W. Kluge Center discussed the role of the state in establishing geographic, technological and bureaucratic controls over the flow of peoples, cultures and beliefs across borders. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7223

Sep. 17, 2015. German Fellow Sibylle Machat has spent months at the Kluge Center researching images of planet Earth in American children's books from 1843 to the present. How Earth looks from space is well-known today; satellite imagery of the planet is now a part of our collective consciousness. But before public access to photographic representations of Earth, how the planet appeared from space was collectively imagined through the imagery in children's books. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7201

Dec. 3, 2015. Tony Blair delivered the 7th Kissinger Lecture at the Library in the John W. Kluge Center. Blair spoke on the strategies to defeat Islamist extremism. The address was followed by a moderated discussion with Martin Indyk. Speaker Biography: Tony Blair served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Speaker Biography: Martin Indyk is the vice president and director for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7159

Sep. 5, 2015. Donald Lopez Jr., Jane McAuliffe and Jack Miles discuss "The Norton Anthology of World Religions" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link distinguished university professor of Buddhist and Tibetan studies at the University of Michigan. He has a doctorate in Buddhist studies from the University of Virginia and specializes in late Indian Mahayana Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. Lopez has delivered numerous lectures and written extensively on Buddhism. His published books include "From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha," "Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed" and "Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West." Most recently, Lopez edited and contributed to "The Norton Anthology of World Religions." Speaker Biography: Jane McAuliffe is the director of National and International Outreach at the Library of Congress, where she previously served as the director of the John W. Kluge Center and head of the Office of Scholarly Programs. She is a distinguished scholar specializing in Islamic studies and was the eighth president of Bryn Mawr College. Previously, McAuliffe served as the dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University and worked at Emory University and the University of Toronto. Her published books include "Qur'anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis," "Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an" and "Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an." Most recently, she edited and contributed to "The Norton Anthology of World Religions." Speaker Biography: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Miles is a distinguished professor of English and religious studies at the University of California at Irvine and a fellow for religious affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. His work has been featured in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and other publications. His published books include "God: A Biography" and "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God." Most recently, Miles was the general editor of "The Norton Anthology of World Religions." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6967

Sep. 5, 2015. Manuel Castells, Morton Kondracke & Julia G. Young discuss their work on a panel celebrating the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Sociologist and scholar Manuel Castells was appointed to the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society in 2012 at the Library's John W. Kluge Center and used the Library's extensive collections to research for his book, now available in an updated second edition, "Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age." Castells is a professor of sociology and president of the Scientific Commission of Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor in 17 universities around the world and has lectured at more than 300 academic and professional institutions in 46 countries. He is the author of over 25 books, including the trilogy "The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture," which has been translated into more than 20 languages. He has received many honors and awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship and the C. Wright Mills Award, and has been knighted for scientific merit by the governments of France, Finland, Chile, Portugal and Catalonia. Speaker Biography: Journalist Morton Kondracke was the scholar appointed to the Kemp Chair in Political Economy in 2011 at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. He used the Library's extensive collections, particularly the Jack F. Kemp Collection, to research Jack Kemp's life and contributions to American political thought. His new book, "Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America," traces Kemp's life from childhood through his political career. Kondracke has been a national journalist for nearly 50 years and currently is an editor and columnist at Roll Call. He is also the author of the best-selling "Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson's Disease," which inspired a CBS movie. Speaker Biography: Assistant professor and scholar Julia G. Young was a 2014 Kluge Fellow at the Library's John W. Kluge Center and used the Library's extensive collections to research for her recent book, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles and Refugees of the Cristero War." Using previously unexamined archival materials from both Mexico and the United States, her book describes the Cristero War as a transnational conflict that had a deep impact on Mexican emigrant communities across the United States. Young is an assistant professor in the department of history at Catholic University of America and has research and teaching interests that include Mexican and Latin American history, global migrations, religion and diaspora. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6892

April 23, 2015. In 2006, tomb robbers in Shaanxi discovered what is now recognized as the most complete 11th century family cemetery ever found in China. In his talk, Jeffrey Moser considers the depth of burial as a matter of moral practice, human labor and the horizon of memory. Speaker Biography: Jeffrey Moser is a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6772

More than 70 scholars descend on Capitol Hill for a lively mixture of rapid-fire dialogues, panels and scholarly conversations to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center. The opening proceedings bring two former Kluge Prize recipients together in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center director Jane McAuliffe. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6768

Dr. Janet Roseman visits Perfectly Healthy And Toned Radio. Janet Roseman,  Ph.D. is an author,teacher and intuitive healer. She was the David Larson Fellow in Spirituality and Medicine at the Kluge Center for Scholars at the Library of Congress and the author of several books.  Dr. Roseman specializes in spirituality and medicine and compassionate care and currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Family Medicine at Nova Southeastern University's School of Osteopathic Medicine. She also worked as a Clinical Instructor in Family Medicine at Brown University's Medical School.  Dr. Roseman is a skilled medium and intuitive healer and works with clients in-person and long distance. She teaches workshops in Illuminated Dream HealingTM and Illuminated ReikiTM across the country as well as workshops for women with cancer. She is currently working on several books on spirituality and healing and death and dying.

June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, five 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations," followed by 30 minutes of moderated Q+A, covered perspectives on notions and morality. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6749

June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, two former Kluge Center directors reflect on the its past and examine its future. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6748

June 11, 2015. As the finale of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, six leading scholars discuss why freedom of expression matters. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6750

June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, five 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 30 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered perspectives on the concept of world order from former Kissinger chairs at the Center. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6744

June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, seven 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 20 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered how we write about those who came before us. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6746

June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, seven 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 20 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered the topic of personal and cultural identity in a multicultural world. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6747

June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, seven 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 20 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered definitions of life in the 21st century and beyond. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6745

About the book: Reclaim Inner Strength, Courage, and Faith Joan of Arc, the fourteenth-century teenager who led the armies of France before facing the Inquisition, stands as the quintessential icon of feminine courage and faith. These are the attributes most needed by women facing a diagnosis of cancer or any life-threatening disease. Drawing directly from the words Joan spoke at her trial, author Janet Lynn Roseman presents thirty-one Flames of Courage and thirty-one Gateways to be used over the course of a month or a year to resurrect inner fortitude and create an environment for healing. Her approach encompasses body, mind, and spirit and will help you access and reclaim your personal power to find healing and peace in your journey. About the author: Janet Lynn Roseman Ph.D. is an author,teacher and intuitive healer. She was the David Larson Fellow in Spirituality and Medicine at the Kluge Center for Scholars at the Library of Congress and the author of several books. Dr. Roseman specializes in spirituality and medicine and compassionate care and currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Family Medicine at Nova Southeastern University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine. She also worked as a Clinical Instructor in Family Medicine at Brown University’s Medical School. Dr. Roseman is a skilled medium and intuitive healer and works with clients in-person and long distance. She teaches workshops in Illuminated Dream Healing™ and Illuminated Reiki™ across the country as well as workshops for women with cancer. She is currently working on several books on spirituality and healing and death and dying.

Janet Lynn Roseman, PhD, is an assistant professor in medical education at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and director of the Physician Fellowship Program in Integrative Medicine. She specializes in spirituality and medicine, and created the Sidney Project in Spirituality and Medicine and Compassionate Care™, a unique model in medical education that reminds physician residents of the sacredness of their profession and the importance of creating caring environments for both patients and physicians. She was the David Larsen Fellow in Spirituality and Medicine at the Kluge Center for Scholars at the Library of Congress.She leads workshops for people with cancer and offers the “Cultivating Courage with Joan of Arc” training program for healthcare professionals who work with oncology patients. She lectures on the intersection of compassion and medicine, and is dedicated to changing the medical culture from what it is to what it can be. Dr. Roseman is also a Reiki master, dance therapist, and intuitive healer. Her column on healing with Joan of Arc appears in Sedona Journal of Emergence.

Oct. 30, 2014. Steven Dick discusses his year of research on astrobiology at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in his final lecture as chair. Speaker Biography: Steven Dick is the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology. or transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6644

Dec. 4, 2014. Kevin Kim discusses how Henry Wallace and Herbert Hoover challenged and often transformed America's experiences in the Cold War. Speaker Biography: Kevin Kim is a senior lecturer in history at Vanderbilt University and 2014 Jameson Fellow in American History at the John W. Kluge Center. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6652

Dec. 2, 2014. Ananya Vajpeyi presents a biography and intellectual history of B.R. Ambedkar, politician, jurist and principal architect of the constitution of India. Speaker Biography: Ananya Vajpeyi is an intellectual historian based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6653

June 18, 2014. Discoveries of new, potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system raise challenging questions for humanity vis-a-vis faith, human nature, reality and religion. This discussion addresses the complex intersection of astrobiology and theology as part of the Kluge Center's astrobiology program. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6330

Dec. 11, 2013. This talk examines the songs recorded in the summer of 1934 by folklorist John Lomax, with assistance from his son Alan, who was then a teenager. While the music they recorded there has often been described as Cajun or Creole music, what they actually found was much more complex: a diverse admixture of old medieval lays, Continental pop songs, blues ballads, round dance songs, traditional ballads in French, a Scottish jig, and much more. This talk coincides with the release of the book Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana, a study of the 1934 trip. Speaker Biography: Joshua Clegg Caffery is a writer and musician. He is a founding member of the Red Stick Ramblers and a longtime member of the Louisiana French band Feufollet. Caffery was nominated for a Grammy in 2010 for his work on the Feufollet album "En Couleurs." He is currently the Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6272

Sep. 19, 2013. The Library holds the largest collection of photographs by F. Holland Day in the world, a gift from his estate spanning his career and comprising six hundred and ninety prints. The methodology for acquiring material information and the results of paper texture analysis, a new technique in field of conservation, as well as new findings pertaining to Day's working methods are discussed. Speaker Biography: Adrienne Lundgren is a senior photograph conservator in the Conservation Division of the Library of Congress. In 2012 she was awarded the Kluge Staff Fellowship by The John W. Kluge Center, which is given to one staff member annually to conduct independent research using the Library's resources and collections. Prior to joining the Library in 2002, she was a fellow in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. She holds an M.S. in conservation from the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6236

Nov. 14, 2013. Amanda Lahikainen demonstrates how graphic satires and satirical banknotes reflected and helped produce the changing cultures of paper money and engraving during the Bank Restriction Period (1797-1821). Speaker Biography: Art historian Amanda Lahikainen, a fellow at the John W. Kluge Center, has spent the past six months as a scholar-in-residence is looking at the ways in which print artists in England satirized the introduction of paper money and the ways in which art may have helped enable paper money to become normalized in society more broadly. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6213

Aug. 1, 2013. Patricia O'Brien discusses English colonialism and piracy. Speaker Biography: Patricia O'Brien is the current Kislak Fellow for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the Kluge Center and a Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University. She is the first full-time faculty member for the Center of Australian and New Zealand Studies, where her research focuses on Australian history, the colonial history of the Pacific, and British imperial history. Currently she is working on histories of Australian imperial relations in the colonies of Papua and New Guinea, New Zealand colonial relations with Samoa and British colonialism, privateers and indigenous contact in the Caribbean. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6219

Jan. 23, 2014. Robin Lovin discusses how to re-introduce a moral vocabulary into contemporary politics. Speaker Biography: Robin W. Lovin is 2013 Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. He became director of research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in July 2013, has served as Project Leader of CTI's three-year interdisciplinary research project on new approaches in theological inquiry, and was co-leader of CTI's inquiry on theology and international law. Lovin is the Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus at Southern Methodist University. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6217

The outgoing and incoming Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chairs in Astrobiology -- David H. Grinspoon and Steven J. Dick -- discuss the societal implications of the search for life in the universe, Jan. 28, 2014. Speaker Biography: David H. Grinspoon held the inaugural astrobiology chair position at the Library of Congress from November 2012 to October 2013. His successful tenure included a day-long symposium on the longevity of human civilization and speaking appearances at the Library, NASA headquarters, NASA Goddard Research Center, the Philosophical Society of Washington, the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Grinspoon's research at the Library of Congress examined the history of the Earth from an astrobiological perspective, and the consequences for life on Earth in the "Anthropocene Era," the name given by some scientists to the current era in the Earth's history. An internationally known planetary scientist, funded by NASA to study the evolution of Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe, Grinspoon serves as an adviser to NASA on space-exploration strategy. He is involved with many space missions and is a trained suborbital astronaut. He has been published widely in popular magazines, scholarly journals, and blogs. Speaker Biography: Steven J. Dick is an a well-known astronomer, author, and historian of science. His research at the Library of Congress investigates the human consequences of searching and potentially discovering life beyond Earth. Dick most recently testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology about astrobiology and the search for bio-signatures in our solar system. Prior to holding the astrobiology chair at the Kluge Center, he was the chair in aerospace history at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. He served as the chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 2003 to 2009. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6194

Historian Will Hitchcock explores America's place in the world and President Eisenhower's leadership during the tumultuous 1950s. Speaker Biography: Will Hitchcock was the 2012 Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. A professor of history at the University of Virginia and a senior scholar at the Miller Center for Public Policy, Hitchcock has written widely on Cold War trans-Atlantic relations and European international affairs in the post-World War II era. He spent six months at the Library of Congress researching his book, "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5978

A discussion on Jack Kemp's congressional career, leadership and influence on the Republican Party and the nation. Speaker Biography: Morton Kondracke has covered all phases of American politics and foreign policy as both a print and broadcast journalist. He recently retired, after 20 years, as executive editor and columnist for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call; he remains with the publication as senior editor. From 1977 to 1991, he was executive editor and senior editor of The New Republic. He also served as Washington bureau chief of Newsweek and as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He was a regular panelist on "This Week with David Brinkley" and a panelist in the 1984 presidential debate. For 16 years, Kondracke was also a panelist on the syndicated public affairs show "The McLaughlin Group," and he has been a commentator on Fox News Channel since 1996. Kondracke held the Jack Kemp Chair in Political Economy at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5944

Legal scholar John Witte Jr. discusses how Western legal systems grapple with non-state-based, family-law systems such as Sharia, Halacha and Canon Law. Witte predicts that the Western-legal-system handling of Sharia will become hotly politicized in America in the next few years, as has happened recently in Canada and the United Kingdom. He believes scholarship can aid in widening the conversation surrounding a potentially inflammatory topic. Speaker Biography: John Witte Jr. Witte is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Service Professor and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion Center at Emory University. He has published 220 articles, 15 journal symposia and 26 books, including recently "Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment" and "Sex, Marriage and Family Life in John Calvin???s Geneva." With major funding from the Pew, Ford, Lilly, Luce, and McDonald foundations, Witte has directed 12 major international research projects on democracy, human rights and religious liberty, and on marriage, family and children. He has been selected 11 times by Emory law students as the Most Outstanding Professor and has won dozens of other awards and prizes for his teaching and research. In 2012 he served as the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5943

The Jack Kemp Foundation and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress co-hosted this symposium that brought together colleagues of Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, along with journalists who covered his career, to elicit and record their recollections and reflections upon Kemp's successes and failures as a leader in Congress, and his place in the history of the Reagan Revolution, the Republican Party, and America. Participants in the second panel included Morton Kondracke, Vin Weber, Trent Lott, Fred Barnes. Robert Livingston, Connie Mack & Al Hunt. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5631

The Jack Kemp Foundation and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress co-hosted this symposium that brought together colleagues of Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, along with journalists who covered his career, to elicit and record their recollections and reflections upon Kemp's successes and failures as a leader in Congress, and his place in the history of the Reagan Revolution, the Republican Party, and America. Kemp served as a nine-term Congressman, conference chair, presidential candidate and vice-presidential nominee. Kemp died on May 2, 2009. Participants in the first panel included Morton Kondracke, Robert Walker, Vin Weber, Connie Mack, Robert Livingston, Dan Lungren, Allan Ryskind & Fred Barnes. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5630

Sociologist Manuel Castells examines the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements that have emerged in the Internet Age. He shares his observations on the recurring patterns in these movements: their origins, their use of new media, and their goal of transforming politics in the interest of the people. Castells presents what he sees to be the shape of the social movements of the Internet age, and discuss the implications of these movements for social and political change. Speaker Biography: An expert on the information age and its sociological implications, Manuel Castells is a University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California. He is professor emeritus of sociology and professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library's John W. Kluge Center and a leading expert on the information age and its sociological implications. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5619.

Educated professionals have been responsible for shaping much of America's history, according to scholar Louis Galambos. Since the turn of the 20th century, teachers, scientists, doctors, administrators, lawyers and business managers, among others have been at the forefront of innovation and have provided solutions to many of the nation's challenges. Our forefathers from all walks of life make up this creative class who sought education to improve their lives and in the process, made advances for American society. In his book "The Creative Society and the Price Americans Paid for It," Louis Galambos asserts that entrepreneurial thinkers have always been the staple of American progress. Speaker Biography: A graduate of Indiana University and Yale University, Galambos is a professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University and editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. He also is the co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise. Galambos held the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History in 2006 at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5608.

In 2010 a Cooper's Hawk took up residency in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress, and for a few days the airwaves were full of witty references to the hawks and doves of Congress, and the idea of a bird's eye view of Washington DC. British artist Isabella Streffen was midway through a six-month Arts & Humanities Research Council Fellowship within the John W. Kluge Center, researching the history of ballooning through the Tissandier collection as part of her doctoral research into the use of military visioning technologies in fine art practice. This collision of real life and research, typical of research through creative practice, led Streffen to propose a highly-charged art intervention within federal power structures in the city using two seven-foot remote controlled zeppelins. "Hawk & Dove" is the filming of that art intervention, and will be screened here at the Whittall Pavilion prior to its installation at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, where two silver vinyl prints are currently exhibited as part of the 5x5 Public Art Festival, part of the Centennial National Cherry Blossom Festival. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5613.

In his recent book, ethicist William May argues that the biblical idea of a covenant, which binds people together for a common good, offers a more promising way to deal with national problems than the language of contract, which is grounded in self-interest alone. Speaker Biography: William F. May received his Ph.D. from Yale and taught for many years at Southern Methodist University where he was Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics until retirement in May 2001. He was the founding director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. In Sept 2007 he was appointed named to the Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. He is best known for his work in medical ethics. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5464.

From the 1680-1690s, Puritan New England underwent political and cultural transformations that would eventually turn it from a Puritan "covenanted society," virtually independent of the mother country, into a much more open and secular royal province. The main political events that shaped the crisis and transformations alike are the establishment of a royal Dominion of New England in 1686 and its downfall in the bloodless Boston "revolution" of 1689, "King William's War" with the French and their Algonquin allies and, most notorious of all, the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Studying a group of texts, written by political and spiritual elite, Galtsin focuses on how the Puritan colonies reacted to the turbulent decade, and how they saw it in a process of divinely ordained history. Speaker Biography: Dmitry Galtsin is with the department of book history at the Library of Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg. He is a Fulbright Fellow in the John W. Kluge Center.

Maya Jasanoff appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Maya Jasanoff is currently an associate professor of history at Harvard University. Her first book, "Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture and Conquest in the East, 1750???1850," was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications, including The Economist, The Guardian and The Sunday Times of London. She was a fellow of the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center, the New York Public Library and the American Council of Learned Societies and has contributed essays to the London Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. Her latest work is "Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5391.

In his preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman offers a programmatic statement for his entire poetic project: "Finally, as I have lived in fresh lands, inchoate, and in a revolutionary age, future-founding, I have felt to identify the points of that age, these lands, in my recitatives, altogether in my own way." Sascha Poehlmann uses Whitman's term and argues that his work can serve as a model of future-founding poetry, or poetry that aims to actively mark and perform a beginning as well as that a poets after Whitman have employed, modified, and adapted such a future-founding mode, most recently in poems on 9/11, The presentation focuses on Whitman's own poetry and prose in order to show how his cultivation of the future in the present fuses the aesthetic and the political as it negotiates openness between an uncertain and a determined future. Speaker Biography: Sascha Poehlmann is a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and the 2011 Bavarian Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5383.

Exploration of the history of science in Florida during the decades before and after the beginning of U.S. governance in 1821. The lecture emphasizes the context of violence in Florida shaped scientific practices in the region as well as knowledge circulating throughout the United States of Florida's native peoples and natural history. The overlap between science and violence reached its climax during the Second Seminole War, when U.S. Army surgeons and other amateur naturalists were both the targets of Seminole attacks and the perpetrators of brutalities against Florida's Indians. Most notably, white naturalists in Florida collected, analyzed, mutilated, and exported the remains of Florida's Indian dead, particularly the skulls of both long-buried and recently killed Seminoles. Although they carried out their grisly work in an isolated region, the practices, specimens, and ideas of these skull collectors had a lasting influence on scientific approaches to Indian remains throughout the United States. Speaker Biography: Cameron B. Strang was a resident scholar in the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5237.

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick discusses the similarities between Muslim and Christian quests for common understanding among adherents of each religion. Speaker Biography: Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is archbishop emeritus of Washington and a distinguished visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center. He has served on several international bodies and has been a member of the board of Catholic Relief Services for many years. In his retirement, he has been dedicated to inter-religious dialogue, especially in the Holy Land and the Middle East. He served as part of a delegation of American religious leaders that was instrumental in the release from Iranian prison of two young American hikers. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5350.

Mark W. Geiger describes how, during the Civil War, planters in the border state of Missouri had bet on the South's victory and that the financial scheme they devised had backfired. The resulting collateral damage to the state's pro-Confederate citizens set off a series of worsening consequences that ultimately cost thousands of people their property and many, their lives. Speaker Biography: Mark W. Geiger is a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center and an honorary research fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He received his BA from Carleton College and his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Before entering academia, he worked in industry, primarily in financial services. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5349.

Ricardo V. Luna holds a conversation with Larrie D. Ferreiro, whose latest book describes an 18th-century scientific expedition to the equator to determine the true shape of the Earth. Ferreiro's new book tells the story of a 10-year scientific expedition to the equator to resolve the mystery surrounding the shape of the Earth. It was known that the Earth was not a perfect sphere, but scientists did not know if it was elongated or flattened at the poles. As a Washington Post book review asked, did the planet look like an egg standing upright in its carton or like an exercise ball when someone sat on it? Speaker Biography: Ricardo V. Luna is a distinguished visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center and former ambassador of Peru to the United States. Speaker Biography: Larrie D. Ferreiro is an award-winning science writer whose latest book is "Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World." For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5347

Klaus Larres discusses how the 1970s, like today, were characterized by controversial military engagements, deep political divisions and severe financial disruptions. Larres describes the Nixon/Kissinger approach to overcoming U.S. "decline" in an increasingly multilateral world and analyzes whether this approach is still relevant for the current administration. Speaker Biography: Klaus Larres, former holder of the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Kluge Center, has returned to the center as distinguished visiting scholar. Frequently called upon as a speaker, panelist and commentator on both current and past European-American relations and the history of the Cold War, Larres is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations and visiting professor at The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Larres is a professor of history and international affairs at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Previously, he was a professor in international relations at the University of London and the Jean Monnet Professor at Queen's University, Belfast. Larres has held fellowships and visiting professorships at a number of prestigious academic institutions and "think tanks." Larres has published widely on transatlantic relations during the Cold War and the post-Cold War years. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5335.

Christopher Moran explores the similarities between Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the real world of the Central Intelligence Agency. Speaker Biography: Christopher Moran is an author and postdoctoral fellow in the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress.

Toure F. Reed examines the influence of labor activism on the civil rights agendas of the NAACP and National Urban League and challenges presumptions about the ideological orientations of these important civil rights organizations. Reed describes how mainstream civil rights activists of the 1930s and 1940s began to perceive racial discrimination as an outgrowth of class exploitation as they were pushed to the left by New Deal labor law and working-class political movements. Afro-American activists during the Depression and Second World War thus frequently identified black participation in the American union movement as a key component to the quest for racial equality. Speaker Biography: Toure F. Reed is an associate professor of history at Illinois State University. An historian of Afro-American History, his research interests include 20th century black politics and US urban and labor history. He earned a B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Reed has received both a University Teaching Initiative Award (2005-2006) and an outstanding faculty award presented by the Dean of Students (2007). During his tenure as a fellow in the John W. Kluge Center, he focused his research on New Deal Civil Rights. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5301.

Despite their history of pacifism, Philadelphia Quakers were deeply entangled in the American Revolution. When a small number of disowned Friends came together in February 1781 to form a group they called "The Society of Friends Known by Some as the Free Quakers," they were motivated by the genuine desire for shared religious communion in keeping with the "fundamental Principals" of Quakerism -- but also by their shared support of Independence. Their organized dissent against the all-but-Loyalist Society of Friends was unprecedented, as was their appeal to Pennsylvania's radical Assembly for ongoing access to Friends' property on the basis of shared rights. When in 1784 the Free Quakers built a meeting house of their own, it embodied a set of newly intersecting cultural practices through its integration of Quaker traditional forms with an emerging early-national iconography. Drawing on a rich survival of primary documents -- including those housed in the Library's Marian S. Carson Collection -- this talk will explore the convergence of social, economic, political and religious factors that together shaped Philadelphia's Free Quakers as a movement and as a community. Can the contours of this smaller separation shed light on our understanding of the cultural upheavals of the Revolution itself? Speaker Biography: Susan Garfinkel is a staff fellow in the John W. Kluge Center. She is a specialist in the Library's Digital Reference Section.

As northern abolitionists set about trying to exploit mass media to denounce and destroy American slavery, they found themselves wrestling with the problem of slave suicide. Was it an act of principled resistance to tyranny that struck at the heart of the plantation economy? Or was it a measure of abject victimhood that begged to be mourned and avenged through humanitarian intervention? Kluge Fellow Richard Bell describes the deep differences within the northern abolitionist movement as to who had the power to bring slavery to its knees: white evangelicals who might be moved to action by displays of wretched slave suffering, or black slaves with the courage to fight and die for their freedom. Speaker Biography: Richard Bell is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. Bell has held research fellowships at more than a dozen libraries and institutes. Since 2006 he has served as the Mellon Fellow in American History at Cambridge University, the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, a Mayer Fellow at the Huntington Library, a research fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition and Resistance at Yale University and as a resident fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He is currently at work upon a new book-length study of a female Marylander who kidnapped free black people and sold them into slavery in Mississippi in the 1810s and 1820s. For captions, transcript, or more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5264.