On Juneteenth

Brainstorms and Mindfarts: The Best and Brightest, Dumbest and Dimmest Inventions in American Histor

In the Arena: A Memoir of Love, War, and Politics

Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870

Celebrating the Women’s Suffrage Centennial: What Happened and What Have We Learned?

Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn

Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier

The Triumph of Nancy Reagan

Suppressed: Confessions of a Former New York Times Washington Correspondent

The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840

Can Congress Reform Itself Again?

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

Goering’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World with Jonathan Petropoulos

Making a New American Constitution and the Question of Constitutional Reform: A Discussion

Overcoming Challenges: Women in the Military

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights with Dorothy Wickenden

Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

How the South Won the Civil War

Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice with Bruce Levine

The Girl Explorers

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception with Cass Sunstein

Spinning the Globe: The History and Legacy of the Harlem Globetrotters

The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity

Calhoun: American Heretic

George Washington’s Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation

Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election

The Rope: A True Stroy of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship with Deborah Willis

Inventing Equality: Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War

Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City with Kenneth M. Price

Beethoven In America

Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell with Alison M. Parker

The Bill of Rights at the Schoolhouse Gate

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life with Jonathan Alter

The Four Continents – An Open Dialogue

Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy with Larry Tye

A Georgetown Life: The Reminiscences of Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon with Grant S. Quertermous

A Question of Freedom

We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, A President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gra

The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America’s Midnight War Against Russia with Barnes Carr

Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Social Justice

1774: The Long Year of Revolution in partnership with the Concord Museum

Veterans Day Program: Memphis Belle: The Restoration - Opening Remarks and Discussion

Tribute to a Generation: Haydn Williams and the Building of the WWII Memorial

The Four Continents - A Commission of Daniel Chester French: A Discussion with Harold Holzer

Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News. Wall Street, and the White House with Eliza

Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

The Sum of the People: How the Census has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

Last Mission to Tokyo

100th Anniversary of Women Winning the Vote: Reflections on the 2020 Centennial

How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions

The Write Stuff: Records on Women’s Battle for the Ballot

Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice with Pam Fessler

Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEO’s, Founders, and Game Changers

OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to

The Electoral College and the Constitution

"The Paratrooper Generals" with Mitchell Yockelson

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Women’s Suffrage Conversation with Susan B Anthony, Alice Paul, and Sojourner Truth

Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and R

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote

A More or Less Perfect Union: A Personal Exploration by Judge Douglas Ginsburg

Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

New Visions of the Future of Press Freedom

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe

American Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics

Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Story of America’s First Female Terrorist Group

The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians

Melania and Michelle: First Ladies in a New Era*

The Bill of Rights as an Inspiration to the World

Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug*

Veteran’s Day Tribute Program: WWII Soldier Photographers and Army Pictorial Center Signal Corps

Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving

Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

Women in Leadership: The Impact of Women on the U.S. Congress*

Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back*

The Credibility of the Fourth Estate, Past and Present

Women Suffragists and the Men Who Supported Them: The Suffragents*...

Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence

The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes

Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant*

The Cigarette: A Political History

Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth

19: The Musical

The Nature of Constitutional Rights: The Invention and Logic of Strict Judicial Scrutiny

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

African American Women in the Suffrage Movement and the Battle for the Vote*

All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Voll III, 1856-1863

UPDATED LINK George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

Black Site: The CIA in the post-9/11 World

Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy

Apollo 11 film discussion

Small Steps and Giant Leaps: How Apollo 11 Shaped Our Understanding of Earth and Beyond

July 4th - Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony

The Years Bring Enlightenment: The Friendship and Politics of Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson*

The Faulkner Murals: Revealing their Stories

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington*

Our Lost Declaration: America’s Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State

The Female Candidate for Office: Challenges and Hurdles*

Moms in Chief

75th Anniversary of D-Day: The True Glory Opening Remarks

All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women*

The “Write” Stuff Author Conversations

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Unexampled Courage

Women and the Vote: The 19th Amendment, Power, Media, and the Making of a Movement

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote *

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between

Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897–1922

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

First: Sandra Day O’Connor, An American Life

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

DC Emancipation Day and the Emancipation Proclamation

The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the Right to Vote

Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French

Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the Right to Vote

Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French

Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

Music in the Life of President Lincoln

The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers

Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith and the Unlikely Alliance that Created the Modern Democratic Party

They Shall Not Grow Old Panel discussion

Women and the Vote: Opposition to Women’s Equality, from Suffrage to the ERA

Bit Player: My Life with Presidents and Ideas

Presidents of War

A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle that Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates

Vietnam Photographers: Capturing the War on Film

Valley Forge

Frederick Douglass, 19th Century Civil Rights Activist: His Legacy Today

American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us

Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past

Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times

Nixon Legacy Forum: The Greatest Comeback: Richard Nixon and the 1968 Election

For Us, By Us: America's Trust In & Expectations of, The Constitution

LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval

Symposium: The Vietnam War Revisited

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding

Game Design and the Constitution

Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History...

First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

A Tiger Among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley

President Carter: The White House Years

The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy

July 4th - Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony

Robert F. Kennedy Legacy Program Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope

Citizen Engagement in America’s History

We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam

The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon

The Class of '74: Congress After Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship

The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier...

“Independent Media and the Rule of Law”

The “Write” Stuff Author Conversations

World War II at Sea: A Global History

The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics

Nixon Legacy Forum: No Final Victories: Lessons from President Nixon’s Drug Abuse Initiatives

The Indian World of George Washington

Remembering Vietnam: The 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Marines’ Victory at the Battle of Dai Do

Nixon Legacy Forum - Building the Branches: How Nixon Worked with a Democratic Congress

We Can Do It! American Women in History

Remembering Vietnam: Medics, Corpsman, and Nurses

11th Annual McGowan Forum on Women in Leadership: Women in Foreign Service

The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North

Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan

Preservation of War: “Vietnam – The Combat Artist Program”

Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

The Emancipation Proclamation and the End of Slavery

Women’s Suffrage and the Vote: Funding Feminism

This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, DC

First Ladies of the Republic

Democracy’s Messengers: The Never-Before-Told Story of Young Americans on Capitol Hill

Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977–1981

The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital

Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America