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Back to SearchA Conversation with Oscar Tang on Business, Art, and Civic Leadership
Season 5 Episode 15
Born in wartime Shanghai and brought to the United States at age eleven with no knowledge of English, financier and philanthropist Oscar Tang reflect…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Conducting New York’s Legacy
Season 5 Episode 14
From his childhood in Venezuela’s famed El Sistema music education program to his rise as one of the world’s leading conductors, Gustavo Dudamel refl…
5 months, 1 week ago
Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters
Season 5 Episode 13
At the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence. What changed over the course of one year? From Thomas Paine’s…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
McNamara at War: A New History
Season 5 Episode 12
Secretary of defense and friend and ally to two presidents, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most controversial men in American history for his role…
6 months, 1 week ago
The American Revolution: An Intimate History
Season 5 Episode 11
The American Revolution was three wars rolled into one: a fight for independence, a civil conflict, and a struggle between nations. In this conversat…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World War II
Season 5 Episode 10
The teenagers who made up the US Naval Academy class of 1940 arrived in Annapolis as boys on the eve of Hitler’s aggression and graduated as Europe c…
7 months ago
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution
Season 5 Episode 9
History may be written by the victors, but it is illustrated by its painters, and perhaps few so famously or evocatively as John Trumbull—American Re…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park
Season 5 Episode 8
Covering 2.2 million acres, Yellowstone National Park is a geographic behemoth and, as the birthplace of America’s national park system, a cultural g…
8 months, 1 week ago
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Season 5 Episode 7
Some of the most significant moments in American history have occurred over meals, as US presidents broke bread to strengthen alliances, diffuse tens…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
Season 5 Episode 6
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton’s gravestone identifies her merely as the daughter of Philip Schuyler and the widow of Alexander Hamilton, while her sist…
9 months, 1 week ago