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Presidential Powers and National Security in Post-9/11 America

Jack Rakove, W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science, Stanford University

In a time of ongoing national emergency, what is the proper extent of unilateral presidential power over national security?

Play - 25:20

Who Fought for Liberty? Contested Memory and Race Relations

David Blight, Director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition and professor of history, Yale University

How did Americans, northern and southern, black and white, interpret the meaning and memory of the Civil War, particularly in the fifty years after its end?

Play - 31:11

Votes for Women Lessons from a Long Struggle

Eleanor Clift, Contributing editor for Newsweek

Explore how the suffrage movement influenced reform in America -- slowly, with difficult compromises, and by the actions of both powerful personalities and everyday, ordinary Americans

Play - 19:23

Fighting the Good Fight: The Civil Rights Movement and Americas need to Remember

Lonnie Bunch, Founding director of the National Museum of African American History, Smithsonian Institution

Why has the Civil Rights movement achieved many successes, but still not reached all of its goals?

Play - 27:35

Panel Discussion

Bill Pretzer

Panel Discussion Led by Bill Pretzer. Panel consists of Jack Rakove, David Blight, Eleanor Clift, and Lonnie Bunch.

Play - 34:53

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