Legal scholar Randall Kennedy discusses the Supreme Court case Hamilton v. Alabama in which a black woman fought for her right to be addressed in the same manner as white witnesses in court.
Duration: 59.24
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Legal scholar Randall Kennedy discusses the Supreme Court case Hamilton v. Alabama in which a black woman fought for her right to be addressed in the same manner as white witnesses in court.
Duration: 59.24
Journalist Jonathan Alter interviews author Gail Lumet Buckley on her book, The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One American Family.
Duration: 56:25
Historian Richard Brookhiser, in conversation with New-York Historical Society’s Vice President for Public Programs, Dale Gregory, follows Gouverneur Morris to the Constitutional Convention.
Duration: 58:27
Historians discuss the late Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. who served as Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy and redefined presidential biography.
Duration: 55:27
Acclaimed children’s author Steve Sheinkin (Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War) talks with Robert Ellsberg who, at 13, helped his father Daniel Ellsberg photocopy the Pentagon Papers so they could be distributed to the press. Using footage from the documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America, Sheinkin and Ellsberg help families understand one of the biggest scandals of the 20th century, the "leak" that sparked them all.
Duration: 42:31