Lectures tagged "History"

The Devil's Tickets: Contract Bridge and Murder
Gary Pomerantz
September 24, 2009
00:26:47
Gary Pomerantz discusses his narrative from the Roaring 20's, The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand and a New American Age , about a bridge-table killing and murder trial in Kansas City, and the contract bridge card game craze that swept America.
Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award
Cokie Roberts
December 1, 2006
01:33:11
Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, and Linda Wertheimer receive the Ford Hall Forum's Louis P.
Alan Turing's Contribution to World History
Jack Copeland
November 30, 2006
00:58:53
Jack Copeland help celebrate the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing's seminal paper "On Computable Numbers".
Jefferson and His Choice Collection of Books
Mark Dimunation
November 14, 2006
00:58:12
Mark Dimunation speaks on Thomas Jefferson's library and how it shaped the nation's library, which continues to mirror Jefferson's universal approach to collecting today.
Over My Dead Body
Marie Galbraith
September 29, 2006
01:37:28
A panel discusses the fate of Mattatuck Museum's skeleton, Larry, and tries to resolve issues surrounding what happens to our bodies after we die, and who decides what is okay. Where is the line between respect for the human body after death, and the use of human remains for display and education?
Epic Journeys of Freedom
Cassandra Pybus
February 22, 2006
01:09:28
Historian Cassandra Pybus traces the lives and adventures of the runaway slaves who absorbed the dreams of liberty from their masters during the American Revolution and fled to the British to find fre
Audio-only
Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram's Boston
Douglass Shand-Tucci
November 17, 2005
00:51:58
Historian Douglass Shand-Tucci discusses Ralph Adams Cram's architectural monuments as well as Cram's Boston work.
Audio-only
Jefferson: Man Who Couldn't Live Without Books
Douglas L. Wilson
November 10, 2005
00:54:51
Douglas L. Wilson describes Thomas Jefferson's library, the book lover who created it, and the intriguing history of its creation.