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All the President’s Men, Revisited
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Leadership Lessons from Lincoln & Grant
Ronald C. White discussed what the lives and presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant can teach us about leadership with the Library’s Colleen Shogan. The Library of Congress holds Lincoln and Grant’s papers, which are available online.
– Ronald C. White is a historian and author of award-winning biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
– Colleen J. Shogan is the assistant deputy librarian in the Library Collection and Services Group at the Library of Congress.
For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8942
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1929 The Great Depression Part 2
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1929 The Great Depression Part 1
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Charles Ponzi & His Scheme
The Industrial Revolution was one of the greatest transformative moments in history, revolutionising the way humans worked, how they ordered their societies and how they thought about their lives all over the world. But was it really a happy coincidence that a handful of geniuses unleashed the fruits of their inventiveness on a grateful nation at roughly the same time? And if so why did it happen in Britain as opposed to France or Germany or even the United States? Told with an international perspective, Professor Jeremy Black explores how a unique international position allowed 19th century Britain to become the richest, most powerful nation on earth and to set in motion the changes that soon swept over the planet.
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Billy The Kid | The Wild West
Contains scenes of moderate violence.
By the time William Bonney died at the age of 21, he had killed six men including a county sheriff. Today, the State Governor of New Mexico is planning a retrial to re-examine the evidence behind Bonney’s conviction.