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2026 Annual Kislak Lecture: Don Luis de Valasco, the Younger
Library of Congress
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Black Dancing, Culture, and Identity in the Greater Chesapeake, 1700-1865
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Lafayette in America
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Rare Mesoamerican Maguey Paper: Botanical Origin, Regional Manufacture, & Use
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The Water Test and Witch Trials
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Ask the Ethicist: An Evening with Kwame Anthony Appiah
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A Conversation with Mark Leonard
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Photomechanical Prints: History, Identification, and Care
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Conversation with Jacob Berkowitz
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Conversation on the Battle of Ayacucho
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How Historical Moments Influenced the Modern US Congress
53:00
Conversation with Carl Elliott
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History of Science Society Conference
58:02
The Story of Amelia Dawley’s Song
37:30
2024 Kluge Prize Ceremony
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[Private video]
52:38
Tanisha Fazal: Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War
2:18
2024 Kluge Prize Announcement
47:41
Magnificent Intentions: John Wood, First Federal Photographer
56:30
Sidney Robertson, Folk Music Collecting and FDR's New Deal
55:39
The Nixon Impeachment Inquiry: How It Was to Be There
58:08
The Nixon Impeachment Inquiry: The Legacy of the Inquiry
58:50
"The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492"
57:57
Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
52:04
James Baker: Foreign Policy and International Relations
57:02
A Big Deal: The Role of Heresthetic in Negotiating the Affordable Care Act of 2010
1:34:08
AIDS: A Tragedy and a Turning Point
53:35
From Sexual Regulation to Antigay Discrimination
1:08:13
Why Marriage Equality Became a Goal
1:02:20
Representation Gone Viral: Digital Demand and Congressional Capacity
56:24
Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, & Clemency in Early Virginia
1:00:00
The Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs: Illuminating a Graphic Communication System
1:05:52
Conversation with Deepak Nayyar
57:46
The Ambiguities of Robert Purvis
1:44:40
Transatlantic Conversations: Lawmaking and Representation in the U.S. and the U.K.
1:01:15
Long-term Stewardship of Nuclear Materials and Contaminated Sites
58:59
The Last Crusade: Copyright Records, the Emergence of Cinema, and the Stories We Tell
43:21
Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
1:01:59
Aynne Kokas on "Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty"
42:05
Democracy and “Common Sense”: a Conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld
39:31
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework: What Is at Stake for U.S. Policy?
34:31
Kluge Prize Award Ceremony
42:10
Trade Policies: U.S. - China Relations
31:22
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Making Sense of the Big Picture
5:12
Through History to Equality: George Chauncey
Unintended Consequences: How the War in Ukraine Impacts Global Energy and Food Security
1:01:58
General Washington and Mrs. French: Widows and Power in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
57:21
Technology in Wartime and War Memory: Michael Lindsay and the Chinese Communist in World War II
1:00:54
Steve Swayne: Three Objects, Three Composers
2:02
2022 Kluge Prize: George Chauncey
59:41
The Fires of Philadelphia
56:17
Kislak Lecture: The Codex Huexotzinco – Deciphering a Lost World of Art to Reveal its Secret Codes
1:15:31
Pillars of Democracy: Churches & Other Civic Institutions
1:17:25
Pillars of Democracy: The Media
6:08:58
Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life.
23:45
Women of the 117th Congress: Diverse Voices Making History - Pt.2
55:49
Women of the 117th Congress: Diverse Voices Making History - Pt.1
1:24:51
Pillars of Democracy: The Military
42:53
Book Conversation with Distinguished Visiting Scholar Martha Jones with Historian Adam Rothman
1:01:37
Putin, Ukraine, and What’s Likely to Happen
1:11:22
Pillars of Democracy – Electoral Institutions
39:14
Valentine Moghadam and Shamiran Mako on the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
1:21:52
Pillars of Democracy: The Political Parties
23:10
The U.S. Natural Gas Market: Lessons for a Global Market
32:56
Kluge Prize Address From Recipient Danielle Allen
29:54
How Indigenous Mexicans Engaged with Christian Texts through Art and Literature
1:29:13
Pillars of Democracy: The Administrative State
1:19:24
Pillars of Democracy: The Federal Judiciary
1:25:52
Pillars of Democracy: The Presidency
48:30
The Persistent Challenge of U.S.-China Tech
1:13:49
Pillars of Democracy: The U.S. Congress
40:24
Peculiar Pop: Genre Comic Books at the Library of Congress
51:49
Social Movements and American Democracy in the 21st Century
33:21
Kluge Book Conversation: The Invention of Miracles
36:51
Charlie Laderman and "Sharing the Burden"
1:03:30
The Middle East in 2021
37:59
Kluge Book Conversation: Simon Martin on Ancient Maya Politics
1:01:27
Our Common Purpose: Finding a Shared Historical Narrative
28:46
Kluge Book Conversation: Ainissa Ramirez on How Technology Shapes Our Lives
1:07:43
How Political Institutions Shape Outcomes and How We Might Reform Them
39:25
The US-China Relationship and North Korea
1:04:27
Our Common Purpose: Civic Media to Build a Better Society
36:19
Conversations on the Future of Democracy: A History of African American Political Thought
27:16
Martha S. Jones on Black Women and the Suffrage Movement
33:44
Conversations on the Future of Democracy - Charles Kupchan
51:13
China’s Economic Expansionism
30:05
The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era
35:17
Artificial Intelligence in the Search for Life in the Universe
34:39
Perspectives on the Post-Covid World Order
36:54
Andrea Campbell on the Safety Net in a Time of Crisis
U.S. Fiscal Policy in the Wake of COVID-19
30:43
On the Future of Democracy: A Time to Build
58:41
Fergus Bordewich on Congress at War
1:00:22
The Light That Failed
57:47
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind
1:27:42
The United States & the Middle East: The Future of a Complex Relationship
1:10:12
The Fall of the Berlin Wall & the Future of Democracy
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100 Years of Women Voting
1:00:58
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
52:44
Evan Thomas on Sandra Day O'Connor
57:43
Leadership Lessons from Lincoln & Grant
1:00:31
Perspectives on Congressional Policymaking
54:23
Candice Millard on James Garfield
1:25:03
Complicity & Accountability in the Great Recession
1:00:06
Revealing and Uniting Hidden Recordings of Irish Traditional Music
53:59
Drew Gilpin Faust: Women in Leadership
48:00
Sino-Russian Partnership vs. the American Interest
54:48
Stephen Houston on Maya Warfare
1:02:47
Conversation with Walter Isaacson
1:17:00
Leadership in an Age of Political Conflict: David Axelrod & Karl Rove
29:32
Are Sanctions on Russia Working?
1:07:58
Politics of Culture, Culture of Politics: Europe in the 21st Century
1:31:10
Earthrise: Celebrating the Photograph that Changed (How We View) the World
1:03:48
Polarization and Political Discourse in the U.S.
1:02:32
Elaine Weiss and The Woman's Hour
1:11:02
African-American Passages: Black Lives in the 19th Century
5:21:47
Becoming Interplanetary
51:51
Russia & U.S. Elections: What to Expect and How to Prepare
1:58
Drew Gilpin Faust: On Women & Leadership
1:03
Drew Gilpin Faust: On Winning the Kluge Prize
0:47
Drew Gilpin Faust: On What it Means to Be Human
1:07
Drew Gilpin Faust: On the Value of the Humanities & Social Sciences
0:50
Drew Gilpin Faust: On The Relationship Between Scholarship & the Political World
3:04
Drew Gilpin Faust: On the Library of Congress
1:50:12
The United States and the World: Legacies of the Paris Peace Conference
1:08:27
Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund
50:50
The Coddling of the American Mind
1:49:51
Liberalism, Foreign Policy, & the Emerging International Order
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The Bible in Public Life
36:41
Kluge Prize Award Ceremony 2018: Drew Gilpin Faust
1:27:41
Inouye Lecture 2018: Restoring the American Dream
53:55
Defining Italian-American Identity through Opera
58:48
The Peacemakers with Bruce Jentleson
1:02:05
The Future of Political Parties
48:10
Disinformation & the Threat to Democracy
1:03:51
Big Data and Its Impact on Democracy
59:43
The Politics of a Galaxy Far, Far Away
1:04:44
Dynamics of the 2018 Midterm Elections
1:58:31
1619 and the Making of America
57:09
When Congress Taxed Churches: Religion & Politics in the District of Columbia After the Civil War
1:55:53
Georgian Papers Programme Public Symposium
56:06
Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex
55:17
How Effective is Social Media, Really?
59:02
Mapping the Landscape: Vision, Memory & Place-Making
1:03:57
Morality, Contraception & Religion in Post-War America
46:11
2003 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity
1:07:09
2006 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity
43:01
Mapping a Persian Literary Sphere, 1500-1900
1:35:58
Transatlantic Call: People to People
50:58
The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave
1:09:44
Early Modern Globalization Through a Jesuit Prism
46:46
Understanding Confucianism as a Religious Tradition: Salient Features & Significance
2:01:56
Religion in American History: Moments of Crisis & Opportunity
1:11:47
Toward a Transcontinental Theory of Modern Comparative Literature
58:16
How Long, O Lord, Do We Roam in the Wilderness? A History of School Librarianship
59:15
What Time Was the American Revolution? Reflections on a Familiar Narrative
57:25
The Cultural Memory of Robert Burns in 19th Century America
1:10:40
Studying Early Hollywood: The Search for a Storytelling Style
54:25
Songs of Faith and Devotion: Discovery of the K'iche' Coplas in Kislak ms. 1015
1:06:06
Inspiring a Sense of Service and Idealism
55:53
Literary Afterlives of the Cuban and Angolan Revolutions
58:09
Delight in What It Is to Be American: Sidney Robertson on the Road, 1935-1937
1:11:07
The Economy of Promises: Trust & Credit in America
1:02:52
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence & the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
2:52:25
Contemporary African Immigrants in the United States
2:19:26
The Emergence of Life: Elsewhere & Closing Remarks (Session 3)
1:48:06
The Emergence of Life: On Earth (Session 1)
1:20:24
The Emergence of Life: In the Lab (Session 2)
2:44:17
Saving the Web: Ethics & Challenges of Preserving the Internet (afternoon)
3:04:09
Saving the Web: Ethics & Challenges of Preserving the Internet (morning)
1:10:59
Popular Politics & Public Opinion in Late Medieval Paris
1:19:06
Peace & Concord in the Qur'an
1:19:08
The American Research University: The Decades Ahead
1:04:20
The Role of "Law of Nations" in America's Independence
1:00:28
16th-Century Doctrines of Just War & the Origins of the Spanish Empire
1:05:37
Profiles in Statesmanship: 20th Century Breakthroughs & 21st Century Challenges
1:10:42
The Ruins of Paris, 1871
1:08:16
Humanity in Crisis: Ethical Responsibilities to People Displaced by War
1:57:39
The Origins of the RNA World
1:00:48
African Fiddle & Banjo Echo in Appalachia Lecture
19:00
African Fiddle & Banjo Echo in Appalachia Concert
1:15:56
Protecting National Security & Civil Liberties
1:07:36
It from Bit: Cross-Cultural & Interdisciplinary Links in Modern Computing
46:17
Medieval Manuscripts at the Library of Congress
58:26
Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery
1:03:02
Imagining the Amazon: European Colonialism & the Making of Modern-Day Amazonia
1:27:18
The Struggle for Fairness: National Origin Quotas and the Immigration Act of 1965
Migration, Asylum & the Role of the State: Defining Boundaries, Redefining Borders
1:09:29
Images of the Earth in American Children's Books
1:13:36
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
1:05:16
The Depth of the Challenge: Why Force Alone Will Not Defeat Islamist Extremism
1:12:06
The Politics of Catastrophe & the Declaration of World War I
1:07:20
The Last Mission: The Legacy of a Lost World War II Bomber Crew
1:19:37
From Gospel to Law: The Lutheran Reformation & its Impact on Law, Politics & Society
1:12:15
Imminence of Estrangement & Liability of Inner Emigration
56:32
Intangible Information Costs of Real and Digital Property
55:19
Diaghilev's Time Travelling Italian Scores
1:12:20
Revisiting Arguments Advanced in the Declining Significance of Race
1:00:23
The Popularization of Islamic Mysticism in Medieval Egypt
1:51:46
Stories about Life in the Cosmos: Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Perspectives on Astrobiology
1:10:17
Unsettled: Refugee Camps in Britain from the Suez Crisis to Idi Amin
1:07:31
Decolonization & the Sexual Revolution
1:01:32
Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War
1:04:21
Publicity, Celebrity, Fashion: Photographing Edna St. Vincent Millay
1:01:49
Conferral of the 6th Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity
1:21:33
Madeleine Albright & Colin Powell: Finding Shared Values for U.S. Foreign Policy
1:42:02
Rethinking Life on Earth & Beyond: Astrobiology and Paradigm Shifts in Science
59:01
How Social Media Data May Become the Historical Sources of the Future
1:00:38
Ten Meters Down: Moral Depth in a Chinese Tomb
1:03:35
Scholarfest: Evening Gala
1:19:07
Was U.S. Military Intervention in the First World War Worth the Cost? 5/
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Shedding Light on Antiquity: The Forensic Imaging and Study of Manuscripts
30:31
Scholarfest: Reflections: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Scholarfest S6: Freedom of Expression & Why it Matters
1:16:36
Scholarfest S5: Right/Wrong: Perspectives on Notions & Morality
1:11:44
Scholarfest S4: War/Peace: Perspectives on the Concept of World Order from Former Kissinger Chairs
1:19:51
Scholarfest S2: Life/Past: How We Write About Those Who Came Before Us
1:31:24
Scholarfest S1: Life/Future: Definitions of Life in the 21st Century & Beyond
1:34:44
Scholarfest S3: Life/Present: Personal & Cultural Identity in a Multicultural World
55:06
The Indians' Capital City: Native Histories of Washington DC
1:32:08
Astrobiology & the Religious Imagination: Reexamining Notions of Creation, Humanity & the Cosmos
1:00:07
Family Matters: Testing Paternity in the 20th Century
1:09:12
Václav Havel's Legacy Today (Part 2)
1:09:34
Václav Havel's Legacy Today (Part 1)
1:04:40
The Swastika Epidemic: Jewish Politics & Human Rights in the 1960s
1:03:14
American Centuries: Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover & Cold War America's Rise in the World
1:00:34
Mapping New World Peoples in Renaissance Europe
1:02:30
B.R. Ambedkar: The Life of the Mind & a Life in Politics
1:08:18
How the Discovery of Life Beyond Earth will Transform Our Thinking
1:11:31
Art from War: Documenting Devastation/Realizing Restoration
2:56:22
Preparing for Discovery: A Rational Approach to Finding Life Beyond Earth (Morning, Day 1)
58:05
The Gospel Sensibility: Evangelicals, Modernity & Sacred Song in American Experience
1:02:37
Spies, Allies & Murder? The Ominous Origins of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Hanoi's Postcolonial War
1:00:16
Decolonization & the Nation-State: Reflections on the 1958 Referendum in French West Africa
1:04:07
Mourning El Dorado: The Closing of the Amazonian Frontier in Contemporary South American Fiction
1:10:36
The Myth of Wilderness: What's Left to Save & What Never Existed
59:45
Jascha Heifetz, Iconic Violinist
1:13:26
Astrobiology & Theology: A Discussion
1:08:15
Realpolitik & American Exceptionalism
1:03:20
Real Realpolitik: A History
3:03:29
World Christianity, Immigration & the U.S.: The Non-Western Church Comes to America
Photos of F. Holland Day: Developing a Materials-Based Catalog Raisonne
1:08:57
Ethics, Politics & Institutions: A Moral Vocabulary for Modern Democracy
59:03
A Teacher's Guide to Education Law
56:38
Graphic Satire, Paper Money & the Art of Engraving in Britain, 1797-1821
55:18
English Colonialism & Piracy from the Atlantic to the Pacific
59:54
Modernism, African Literature & the CIA
58:47
Imagining the Equator: Commemorative Geodesic Science in the Andes, 18th-20th Centuries
1:06:07
Searching for Life in the Universe: What Does it Mean for Humanity?
1:11:55
Terra Sapiens: The Human Chapter in the History of Earth
53:17
Sea Monsters on Medieval & Renaissance Maps
59:29
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight: Fredric Wertham & the Anti-Comics Crusade
1:22:59
The Longevity of Human Civilization (4 of 4)
1:25:47
The Longevity of Human Civilization (3 of 4)
1:08:25
The Longevity of Human Civilization (2 of 4)
1:40:57
The Longevity of Human Civilization (1 of 4)
What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China
58:23
Jews & New Christians in Portuguese Asia 1500-1700
1:07:48
Bolivar: American Liberator
55:03
Student Rights & the School Environment from a Jurisprudential Perspective
58:35
Prior to Lenin: U.S. Diplomacy & Western Explorers in Early-20th-Century Mongolia
1:23:29
Another Dimension of Empire: The History of the Oxford University Press
1:25:14
Resisting Imperialism, Resisting Decolonization: Making China from the Ruins of the Qing, 1912-1949
1:11:40
The Ike Age: Eisenhower, America & the World of the 1950s
33:35
Illustrated Books of the 15th & 16th Centuries
1:07:27
What's in a Name? The Ghetto Comes to America
1:09:25
Present at the Creation?
1:00:11
Haiti's Environmental History, 1492-Today
1:17:43
From Mecca to Mashhad: A Lithographed Shiite Pilgrimage Scroll from Iran
59:33
Magical Realism in Russia: How Ancestry Worship, Shamanism & Christianity Shaped the Nation
1:09:14
Jack Kemp: A Congressman Who Changed America
55:24
Significance of the Religious Experience
1:22:46
Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies?
1:07:26
The Quest for the New in Latin American Culture: Fashion & Newspapers in the 19th Century
52:29
The New Generation of Modern Arab Women
1:00:49
Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language & Culture of Orthodox Judaism
1:23:31
Why Two in One Flesh: The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy
Gatsby vs Superman
45:16
The Lost Tycoon: George Kleine
1:07:56
Perspectives on the Environment
53:43
The Yankee & American National Character
56:42
The Afterlives of Specimens
1:06:39
Jack Kemp, An American Idealist
1:05:47
Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts
1:11:18
The Pilgrimage of World Christianity: A Post-Christian West and the non-Western Church
1:02:04
The Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace: Decolonization & Politics Between Africa & Asia
1:03:52
The Yank with the Box
1:28:59
Imperialism, Self-Determination & Human Rights
The Continuing Problem of Custom
59:30
When the U.S. Went to War with Canada: Competing Narratives of the 1812 War
1:46:08
Kemp & the Reagan Revolutionaries I
1:17:03
Kemp & the Reagan Revolutionaries II
1:06:58
Irony in the Practice of Medicine
1:10:45
Making Sense of Ancient Graffiti