Webcasts of Manuscript Division Programs

The following webcasts include programs sponsored by the Manuscript Division, featuring Manuscript Division collections, or Manuscript staff as speakers

2011 |2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 1996

2012

TITLE: In Search of Sacco & Vanzetti
SPEAKER: Susan Tejada
EVENT DATE: 06/21/2012
RUNNING TIME: 64 minutes

TITLE: Jack Kemp, An American Idealist
SPEAKER: Morton Kondracke
EVENT DATE: 05/24/2012
RUNNING TIME: 66 minutes

TITLE: Jung & Aging: Bringing to Life the Possibilities & Potentials for Vital Aging (1)
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 03/28/2012
RUNNING TIME: 148 minutes

TITLE: Jung & Aging: Bringing to Life the Possibilities & Potentials for Vital Aging (2)
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 03/28/2012
RUNNING TIME: 152 minutes

TITLE: Ralph Ellison: A Biography
SPEAKER: Arnold Rampersad
EVENT DATE: 05/03/2007
RUNNING TIME: 71 minutes

TITLE: Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute & the Transportation Revolution
SPEAKER: Simine Short
EVENT DATE: 02/29/2012
RUNNING TIME: 61 minutes

TITLE: A Train of Disasters: Puritan Reaction to New England Crisis of 1680-90s
SPEAKER: Dmitry Galtsin
EVENT DATE: 02/16/2012
RUNNING TIME: 62 minutes

TITLE: Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy & Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941
SPEAKER: Michael David-Fox
EVENT DATE: 02/14/2012
RUNNING TIME: 62 minutes

TITLE: A Slave in the White House
SPEAKER: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
EVENT DATE: 02/07/2012
RUNNING TIME: 52 minutes

TITLE: J. Edgar Hoover & the Library of Congress
SPEAKER: Kenneth Ackerman
EVENT DATE: 01/18/2012
RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes

2011

TITLE: Whitman's Future-Founding Poetry
SPEAKER: Sascha Poehlmann
EVENT DATE: 12/15/2011
RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes

TITLE: Federal Discrimination & the Decline of National Black Politics in the Early 20th Century
SPEAKER: Eric Yellin
EVENT DATE: 12/08/2011
RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes

TITLE: A Washington Sketchbook: Drawings by Robert L. Dickinson, 1917-18
SPEAKER: Gail Dickersin Spilsbury
EVENT DATE: 12/06/2011
RUNNING TIME: 45 minutes

TITLE: Gateway to Knowledge Travelling Exhibition
SPEAKER: Various Speakers
EVENT DATE: 11/29/2011
RUNNING TIME: 5 minutes

TITLE: Preservation Roadmaps: Transitioning to a Digital Future
SPEAKER: Various Speakers
EVENT DATE: 10/20/2011
RUNNING TIME: 237 minutes

TITLE: Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
SPEAKER: Justin Martin
EVENT DATE: 07/07/2011
RUNNING TIME: 68 minutes

TITLE: Wickersham Award: Justice John Paul Stevens
SPEAKER: Justice John Paul Stevens
EVENT DATE: 06/13/2011
RUNNING TIME: 49 minutes

TITLE: The Album in the Age of Photography
SPEAKER: Verna Posever Curtis
EVENT DATE: 06/03/2011
RUNNING TIME: 66 minutes

TITLE: The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
SPEAKER: Joshua Kendall
EVENT DATE: 06/02/2011
RUNNING TIME: 57 minutes

TITLE: 1861: The Civil War Awakening
SPEAKER: Adam Goodheart
EVENT DATE: 05/11/2011
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes

TITLE: Ellen & Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies
SPEAKER: Kristie Miller
EVENT DATE: 03/30/2011
RUNNING TIME: 52 minutes

TITLE: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
SPEAKER: Maya Jasanoff
EVENT DATE: 03/24/2011
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes

TITLE: Letter of Alfred North Whitehead
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 02/17/2011
RUNNING TIME: 198 minutes

TITLE: Emile Berliner & the Birth of the Recording Industry
SPEAKER: Samuel Brylawski, Karen Lund
EVENT DATE: 05/17/2011
RUNNING TIME: 67 minutes

TITLE: Ameen Rihani: The Book of Khalid
SPEAKER: Saad Albazei, Roger Allen, Hani Bawardi, James Billington , Suheil Bushrui, Antoine Chedid, Mary Jane Deeb, Todd Fine, Nathan Funk, Wail S. ...
EVENT DATE: 03/29/2011
RUNNING TIME: 293 minutes

TITLE: Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS & Modern American Espionage
SPEAKER: Douglas Waller
EVENT DATE: 02/24/2011
RUNNING TIME: 61 minutes

2010

TITLE: Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War
SPEAKER: Thomas B. Allen
EVENT DATE: 11/30/2010
RUNNING TIME: 51 minutes

TITLE: Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment
SPEAKER: Nancy K. Loane
EVENT DATE: 10/26/2010
RUNNING TIME: 48 minutes

TITLE: New Sources: Early Cold War Soviet Espionage Records
SPEAKER: John E. Haynes
EVENT DATE: 09/30/2010
RUNNING TIME: 63 minutes

TITLE: George Kennan and the Russian Nihilists: A Sojourn into the Dialectics of Friendship
SPEAKER: Andrew Gentes
EVENT DATE: 08/05/2010
RUNNING TIME: 72 minutes

TITLE: Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
SPEAKER: Jeff Shesol
EVENT DATE: 06/21/2010
RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes

TITLE: Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker
SPEAKER: Karen Karbiener
EVENT DATE: 06/24/2010
RUNNING TIME: 77 minutes

TITLE: Carl Gustav Jung and the Red Book (part 1)
SPEAKER: Sonu Shamdasani, James Hillman, Ann Ulanov
EVENT DATE: 06/19/2010
RUNNING TIME: 149 minutes

TITLE: Carl Gustav Jung and The Red Book (part 2)
SPEAKER: Joseph Cambray, Ernst Falzeder, George Makari, Betty Flowers, John Beebe, Thomas Kirsch
EVENT DATE: 06/19/2010
RUNNING TIME: 160 minutes

TITLE: John McNeill on Mosquito Empires
SPEAKER: John R. McNeill
EVENT DATE: 04/26/2010
RUNNING TIME: 51 minutes

TITLE: Conquering the Sky: Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers
SPEAKER: Larry Tise
EVENT DATE: 04/07/2010
RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes

TITLE: Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America
SPEAKER: Cecelia Tichi
EVENT DATE: 03/25/2010
RUNNING TIME: 73 minutes

TITLE: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
SPEAKER: John Haynes
EVENT DATE: 03/02/2010
RUNNING TIME: 64 minutes

TITLE: Black History Month 2010: NAACP 100th Anniversary
SPEAKER: Benjamin Todd Jealous
EVENT DATE: 02/03/2010
RUNNING TIME: 71 minutes

TITLE: The NAACP: Reflections on the First 100 Years
SPEAKER: Patricia Sullivan, Robert L. Zangrando, Kenneth W. Mack
EVENT DATE: 02/26/2010
RUNNING TIME: 142 minutes

TITLE: King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age
SPEAKER: Kathryn Allamong Jacob
EVENT DATE: 02/23/2010
RUNNING TIME: 55 minutes

TITLE: Catch the Suffragists' Spirit: The Millers' Suffrage Scrapbooks
SPEAKER: Rosemary Fry Plakas
EVENT DATE: 02/22/2010
RUNNING TIME: 21 minutes

TITLE: Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
SPEAKER: James McGrath Morris
EVENT DATE: 02/16/2010
RUNNING TIME: 48 minutes

TITLE: Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
SPEAKER: Michael Kranish
EVENT DATE: 02/03/2010
RUNNING TIME: 52 minutes

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2009

TITLE: Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth Century New York City
SPEAKER: Julie Miller
EVENT DATE: 12/09/2009
RUNNING TIME: 62 minutes

TITLE: The Early Herblock
SPEAKER: Warren Bernard
EVENT DATE: 10/30/2009
RUNNING TIME: 68 minutes

TITLE: Fiction Collections at the Library of Congress
SPEAKER: John Y. Cole, Alice Birney, Guy Lamolinara, Mark Dimunation
EVENT DATE: 10/23/2009
RUNNING TIME: 68 minutes

TITLE: Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist
SPEAKER: Haynes Johnson, Harry L. Katz
EVENT DATE: 10/15/2009
RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes

TITLE: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009
SPEAKER: Paul Dickson, Russell Frank, Harry Katz, Claire Smith
EVENT DATE: 10/03/2009
RUNNING TIME: 131 minutes

TITLE: The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
SPEAKER: C.M. Mayo
EVENT DATE: 07/20/2009
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes

TITLE: Impeached: the Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
SPEAKER: David O. Stewart
EVENT DATE: 06/03/2009
RUNNING TIME: 54 minutes

TITLE: Herman Wouk Play Reading: Crisis Over Marjorie
SPEAKER: various actors
EVENT DATE: 05/27/2009
RUNNING TIME: 50 minutes

TITLE: Soul of a People
SPEAKER: David A. Taylor, various speakers
EVENT DATE: 04/28/2009
RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes

TITLE: Exploration into Exile and Creativity: The Case of Arab-American Writers
SPEAKER: Halim Barakat
EVENT DATE: 04/13/2009
RUNNING TIME: 40 minutes

TITLE: Frances Perkins, the Woman Behind FDR
SPEAKER: Kirstin Downey
EVENT DATE: 03/23/2009
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes

TITLE: The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home
SPEAKER: Bibi Gaston
EVENT DATE: 03/17/2009
RUNNING TIME: 62 minutes

TITLE: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism
SPEAKER: Maurice Jackson
EVENT DATE: 02/26/2009
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes

TITLE: They Have Killed Papa Dead!: The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder and the Rage for Vengeance
SPEAKER: Anthony Pitch
EVENT DATE: 02/20/2009
RUNNING TIME: 57 minutes

TITLE: Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction
SPEAKER: Linda B. Osborne
EVENT DATE: 02/09/2009
RUNNING TIME: 54 minutes

TITLE: From Decayed Parchment to 'Bit Rot' -- Challenges in Digitizing Archimedes
SPEAKER: Michael B. Toth, Doug Emery
EVENT DATE: 01/22/2009
RUNNING TIME: 55 minutes

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2008

TITLE: Books--Before and Beyond: Publishing in the 21st Century
SPEAKER: Barbara Peters, Robert Rosenwald
EVENT DATE: 10/07/2008
RUNNING TIME: 63 minutes

TITLE: New Deal Resources: Preserving the Legacy, Part 1
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 03/13/2008
RUNNING TIME: 115 minutes

TITLE: New Deal Resources: Preserving the Legacy, Part 2
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 03/13/2008
RUNNING TIME: 73 minutes

TITLE: Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor
SPEAKER: Edward Miller
EVENT DATE: 01/15/2008
RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes

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2007

TITLE: An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
SPEAKER: Marie Tyler-McGraw
EVENT DATE: 12/10/2007
RUNNING TIME: 45 minutes 

TITLE: The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence
SPEAKER: Raymond Batvinis
EVENT DATE: 11/08/2007
RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes

TITLE: Quick to the Party: Southern Jews and the Americanization of Hanukkah
SPEAKER: Peggy Pearlstein, Dianne Ashton
EVENT DATE: 11/02/2007
RUNNING TIME: 45 minutes

TITLE: A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007
SPEAKER: Robin Rausch
EVENT DATE: 10/30/2007
RUNNING TIME: 44 minutes

TITLE: Aeronautics at the Library of Congress: Forty Years of One User's Experience
SPEAKER: Tom Crouch
EVENT DATE: 10/24/2007
RUNNING TIME: 48 minutes

TITLE: Liberian-U.S. Relations Symposium: Session I
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 07/24/2007
RUNNING TIME: 135 minutes

TITLE: Liberian-U.S. Relations Symposium: Session II
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 07/24/2007
RUNNING TIME: 162 minutes

TITLE: Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950
SPEAKER: Francille Rusan Wilson
EVENT DATE: 06/13/2007
RUNNING TIME: 47 minutes

TITLE: Ralph Ellison: A Biography
SPEAKER: Arnold Rampersad
EVENT DATE: 05/03/2007
RUNNING TIME: 71 minutes

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2006

TITLE: Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women's Emancipation
SPEAKER: Sandra Day O'Connor, Alifa Chaabane Farouk, Hayet Laouni, Mounira Charrad
EVENT DATE: 11/30/2006
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes

TITLE: 2006 Jay I. Kislak Lecture: Re-thinking Conquest: Spanish and Native Experiences in the Americas:
SPEAKER: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
EVENT DATE: 11/09/2006
RUNNING TIME: 61 minutes

TITLE: Treasures of the Manuscript Division
SPEAKER: Marvin Kranz
EVENT DATE: 11/07/2006
RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes

TITLE: Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life
SPEAKER: Barbara Haber
EVENT DATE: 08/11/2006
RUNNING TIME: 46 minutes

TITLE: Manuscripts Behind the Scenes
SPEAKER: Marvin Kranz
EVENT DATE: 08/01/2006
RUNNING TIME: 21 minutes

TITLE: Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers
SPEAKER: Tom Crouch
EVENT DATE: 04/25/2006
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes

TITLE: My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 03/30/2006
RUNNING TIME: 57 minutes

TITLE: Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History
SPEAKER: J.A. Lemay
EVENT DATE: 03/09/2006
RUNNING TIME: 63 minutes

TITLE: Lincoln's Other White House: the Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency
SPEAKER: Elizabeth Smith Brownstein
EVENT DATE: 02/07/2006
RUNNING TIME: 58 minutes

TITLE: Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution
SPEAKER: Steve Suitts
EVENT DATE: 01/12/2006
RUNNING TIME: 77 minutes

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2005

TITLE: Whitman and Place
SPEAKER: Joann Krieg, Ted Genoways, William Pannapacker
EVENT DATE: 11/03/2005
RUNNING TIME: 66 minutes

TITLE: Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
SPEAKER: Lewis Dabney
EVENT DATE: 11/02/2005
RUNNING TIME: 28 minutes 

TITLE: Publishing the Declaration of Independence
SPEAKER: Robin Shields
EVENT DATE: 06/24/2005
RUNNING TIME: 22 minutes

TITLE: At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
SPEAKER: Roger Ekirch
EVENT DATE: 06/20/2005
RUNNING TIME: 39 minutes

TITLE: In Country: The Vietnam War, 30 Years After
SPEAKER: Gen. Julius Becton Jr., Bernard Kalb, Stanley Karnow, Daun van Ee
EVENT DATE: 05/04/2005
RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes

TITLE: Daniel Mark Epstein on Walt Whitman's The Death of Lincoln
SPEAKER: Daniel Mark Epstein
EVENT DATE: 04/14/2005
RUNNING TIME: 114 minutes

TITLE: Walt Whitman's Elegy for Lincoln:
SPEAKER: Alice Birney, Rosemary Winslow
EVENT DATE: 03/25/2005
RUNNING TIME: 47 minutes

TITLE: The History of Household Technology
SPEAKER: Constance Carter
EVENT DATE: 02/18/2005
RUNNING TIME: 17 minutes

TITLE: Images of America: Mount Vernon
SPEAKER: Patrick O'Neill
EVENT DATE: 02/10/2005
RUNNING TIME: 35 minutes

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2004

TITLE: First Daughters: Letters Between U.S. Presidents and Their Daughters
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 10/27/2004
RUNNING TIME: 67 minutes

TITLE: Jefferson's Letter to Meriwether Lewis
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 10/13/2004
RUNNING TIME: 32 minutes

TITLE: Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
SPEAKER: Daniel Mark Epstein
EVENT DATE: 09/30/2004
RUNNING TIME: 47 minutes

TITLE: Stewardship in the Digital Age: Roles and Issues for Libraries for Preserving Our Cultural Heritage
SPEAKER: Meg Bellinger
EVENT DATE: 02/23/2004
RUNNING TIME: 68 minutes

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 2003

TITLE: Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 05/19/2003-05/20/2003
RUNNING TIME: various times

TITLE: Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II
SPEAKER: Sheridan Harvey
EVENT DATE: 05/14/2003
RUNNING TIME: 14 minutes

TITLE: The National Digital Preservation Program: Challenges and Solutions
SPEAKER: Laura Campbell
EVENT DATE: 03/21/2003
RUNNING TIME: 47 minutes

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2002

TITLE: Lincoln Symposium: John R. Sellers
SPEAKER: John R. Sellers
EVENT DATE: 03/16/2002
RUNNING TIME: 44 minutes

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2001

TITLE: Margaret Mead Symposium: Whither the U.S. in the World? Day 1
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 12/03/2001
RUNNING TIME: various times

TITLE: Margaret Mead Symposium: Whither the U.S. in the World? Day 2
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 12/04/2001
RUNNING TIME: various times

TITLE: James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy (Symposium)
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 03/16/2001
RUNNING TIME: various times

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1996

American Presidents: Life Portraits Webcasts (C-Span)

TITLE: James Polk Papers & Diary
SPEAKER: Marvin Kranz
EVENT DATE: 09/25/1996
RUNNING TIME: 37 minutes

TITLE: Andrew Jackson Papers
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 21 minutes

TITLE: Benjamin Harrison Papers
SPEAKER: John Sellers
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 17 minutes

TITLE: Chester Arthur Papers
SPEAKER: John Sellers
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 16 minutes

TITLE: James Garfield Papers
SPEAKER: John Sellers
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 13 minutes

TITLE: James Monroe Papers
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 28 minutes

TITLE: John Tyler Papers
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 21 minutes

TITLE: Millard Fillmore & Maps
SPEAKER: Patricia Molen van Ee
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 6 minutes

TITLE: William Harry Harrison Inaugural
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 11 minutes

TITLE: William Harry Harrison Papers
SPEAKER: Gerard Gawalt
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 17 minutes

TITLE: William McKinley Papers
SPEAKER: John Sellers
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 19 minutes

TITLE: Woodrow Wilson Papers
SPEAKER: John Haynes
EVENT DATE: 06/01/1996
RUNNING TIME: 17 minutes