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Back to SearchThe Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part II
Season 2 Episode 20
Author Walter Russell Mead joins David M. Rubenstein once again to examine the connections between Israel, the Jewish people, and American political …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part I
Season 2 Episode 19
The nuances of the Israeli-American relationship extend far into the past. Author Walter Russell Mead joins David M. Rubenstein for a two-part conver…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lincoln and Emancipation
Season 2 Episode 18
Edna Greene Medford, professor of history at Howard University, examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln’s responses to slavery, f…
3 years, 7 months ago
Lincoln and Emancipation
Season 2 Episode 18
Edna Greene Medford, professor of history at Howard University, examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln’s responses to slavery, f…
3 years, 7 months ago
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Season 2 Episode 17
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hail…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Bald Eagle Part Two: The History of the Bald Eagle in America
Season 2 Episode 16
Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental historian Jack E. Davis once again joins David M. Rubenstein to dive deep into the history, and patriotic symbol…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Bald Eagle Part One: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
Season 2 Episode 15
Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental historian Jack E. Davis delves into the story of America’s most famous bird: the bald eagle. In conversation wit…
3 years, 7 months ago
My Life in Special Operations: Operation Neptune Spear and the Raid on the bin Laden Compound
Season 2 Episode 14
Admiral William H. McRaven once again joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss some of his most historic military missions as a member of the Navy SEALs …
3 years, 8 months ago
My Life in Special Operations: The Capture of Saddam Hussein
Season 2 Episode 13
In the first of two conversations centered on his book Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations, Admiral William H. McRaven joins David M. Rubenste…
3 years, 8 months ago
In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art President and CEO Dan Weiss explores the American experience of the Vietnam war through the lens of Michael O’Don…
3 years, 8 months ago