Rothermere American Institute

Aug 29 2018 29 ep. 48 mins 1.1k

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Podcasts of lectures and seminars held at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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Politics After God

Feb 15 2018 45 mins

The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. David Sehat is a cultural and intellectual historian of the United States. He writes broadly on American intellectual, political, and cultural life. He is the author of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible (Simon and Schuster, 2015) and The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxfor

The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps

Nov 13 2017 46 mins

Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory

May 22 2017 49 mins

Professor Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. His research interests are in the history of war, politics, and citizenship in modern American history.

America and the Treaty of Versailles

May 15 2017 59 mins

A public lecture for a series on the United States and World War One.

Joining the Revolution

Mar 07 2017 59 mins

Lyndon Johnson, the modern presidency and the Civil Rights Movement. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

‘O Say Can You See?’ Art, Propaganda and the First World War

Feb 28 2017 51 mins

A public lecture by Professor David Lubin (Wake Forest University) as part of a series on the history of the United States and World War One.

“Deeds Not Words”: American Social Justice Movements and World War One

Feb 14 2017 48 mins

A public lecture on the United States and World War One

‘Exiled Children’ and the Easter Rising: America and Irish Independence

Oct 19 2016 37 mins

Robert Schmuhl (Notre Dame) gives a talk on the Easter Rising as part of the American History Research Seminar series.

Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War

Sep 12 2016 60 mins

Sir Hew Strachan delivers the first Rothermere American Institute Lecture at the annual Chalke Valley History Festival on 29 June 2016.

The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan

May 09 2016 50 mins

Mr Price, who joined the staff of the Nixon administration in 1969, working in the Urban Affairs Council, discusses the relationship between Moynihan and Nixon during the Nixon presidency.