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Public talks curated around Faces of America with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates building on the success of his series African American Lives and African American Lives 2 to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans. Looking to the wider immigrant experience, Henry Louis Gates Jr. turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics and unravels... -
Washington Post correspondent Thomas E. Ricks discusses his newly in paperback exploration of the Iraq war, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq. Now... -
Margaret Atwood discusses new novel, The Year of the Flood, which focuses on a group that appears in the background of Atwood's 2003 novel, Oryx and Crake: the God's Gardeners, who attempt to... -
Public talks curated around For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots that salutes African American service men and women and reveres their dedicated allegiance to the United States military. For the Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriot is an unprecedented look at the largely untold history of African American participation in America's armed... -
Business and technology writer Daniel Pink explores what makes us most productive, and discusses his new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In Drive, Pink explains... -
Public talks curated around Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City Series that examines how Detroit, a symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. Detroit is the crucible in which the nation’s ability to move toward a modern 21st century transportation infrastructure is put to the test. The...
In the News:
- Tzipi Livni on Israel and the Middle East
- Haiti: Fragments of Grace Series
- Al Gore on Climate Change
- Zachary Karabell on the US and China
- Sarah Chayes and Sebastian Junger on Afghanistan
- Eran Lerman on the Iranian Threat
- David Walker on Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
- Laurent Cohen-Tanugi on Europe's Perspective of American Foreign Policy
- Jack Beatty on Obama's First Year
