Four More Years: Presidential Inaugurations
Live presentation of a BackStory with the American History Guys radio segment on the history of presidential inauguration celebrations at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and little-known-stories from inaugurations past.
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The Other Jefferson DavisThe U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
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Not Exactly a Hermit: Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.
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Nietzsche Is DeadThe battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Hary Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
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Friends of RousseauSome of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
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The DramatistBarbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy
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Newton, The Last MagicianThe great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
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Let Us Now Praise James AgeeThe journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
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Julien Green: The End of a WorldAs Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.
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Into the DeepU-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II.
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The Thing (or Things) About Wendell BerryAn Appreciation by Mark Bittman
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The Strange Politics of Gertrude SteinWas the den mother of modernism a fascist?
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Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged PeopleA scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
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Deaf Meets WonderstruckAn NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
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Modern LoveCharles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.
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Words of AmericaThe final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
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Henry James and the American IdeaThe Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
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California's Cold War MuseumAll things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.