Arthur Miller: Un-American (2009 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture)
The 2009 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given on 21 May 2009 at the Rothermere American Institute, by Professor Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia.
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Robin Kelley's inaugral lecture comments on the absence of discussion about race as connected to Barak Obama's presidency, particularly in light of American history and politics.
View ArticleStanding Neustadt on his Head: The Leadership Style of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fred L. Greenstein (Professor of Politics Emeritus, Princeton University) delivers the 2010 John Lees Memorial Lecture at the American Politics Group conference.
View ArticleC.K. Williams: A Life in Poems (2010 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture)
The Annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner C.K. Williams on 'A Life in Poems' at the Rothermere American Institute on 24th...
View ArticleSabina Murray: Bouncing Across the Plank: Politics, History, and Literary...
The Annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given by award-winning Filipina American screenwriter and novelist, Sabina Murray at the Rothermere American Institute on 13th June 2012.
View ArticleThe Triumph of the Humanities
Michael S. Malone, journalist, bestselling author, and one of the world's best known technology writers challenges the notion that the humanities are facing a crisis. Drawing on years of experience in...
View ArticleA Great Deal of Ruin in a Nation
In this lecture,Professor Barry Supple, FBA, and Professor Avner Offer, FBA, will analyse the post-war economic development of the United States. In late 1777, Adam Smith received news of General...
View ArticleParadoxes of State Power in America
Professor Gary Gerstle in this 2012 Harmsworth lecture debates the paradoxes of state power in America, seeking to address the paradoxical legacy bestowed by the US Constitution: how can the US be so...
View ArticleEsmond Harmsworth Lecture 2013: Theater in the Age of Twitter
The annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given in May 2013 by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn.
View ArticleThe Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat...
David Roll's portrait of Hopkins discusses his early life and career, but emphasizes his role alongside FDR (and later Truman) in World War II, making use of previously private diaries and letters.
View ArticleThe Assassination of President Kennedy: 50 years on
Godfrey Hodgson and Randall Woods discuss President Kennedy's life in a special event marking the anniversary of his assassination on November 22, 1963. On Friday 22 November – fifty years to the day...
View ArticleNixon the President, Nixon the Man
Please note. The final 10 minutes to this podcast are Audio Only. We apologise for the inconvenience. Forty years after President Richard Nixon resigned from office following the Watergate scandal,...
View ArticleSocial Sector Dynamics - Opportunitites Abound!
Chairman and Founder of the Bridgespan Group Thomas J. Tierney gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on philanthropy and how many Americans are giving back to society
View ArticleSocial Sector Dynamics - Opportunities Abound!
Chairman and Founder of the Bridgespan Group Thomas J. Tierney gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on philanthropy and how many Americans are giving back to society
View ArticleKant's little East Prussian Head and Other Reasons why we Write
Writer Claire Messud gives the Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters 2014
View ArticleThe Futility of Economic Forecasting?
Michael Aronstein, President, Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer of Marketfield Asset Management (New York) delivers a lecture in the Institute’s ‘American Business: Past, Present and...
View Article'The "Age of Revolutions" as an Age of Civil Wars'
The Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History 2014 by Professor David Armitage. David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard, where...
View ArticleThe Assassination of President Kennedy: 50 years on
Godfrey Hodgson and Randall Woods discuss President Kennedy's life in a special event marking the anniversary of his assassination on November 22, 1963. On Friday 22 November – fifty years to the day...
View ArticleNixon the President, Nixon the Man
Please note. The final 10 minutes to this podcast are Audio Only. We apologise for the inconvenience. Forty years after President Richard Nixon resigned from office following the Watergate scandal,...
View ArticleSocial Sector Dynamics - Opportunities Abound!
Chairman and Founder of the Bridgespan Group Thomas J. Tierney gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on philanthropy and how many Americans are giving back to society
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