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CBS Sunday Morning: Voting Rights Comments for MLK Day
Nearly six decades after John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and others fought “Jim Crow” laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting rights are under siege again. Historian and bestselling author Douglas Brinkley talks about recent Republican-led efforts to restrict access to our…
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WBUR/NPR: Radio Interview on Jan 6th Anniversary
For historian Douglas Brinkley, Jan. 6 is a day to remember why it’s important to fight for democracy. An outgoing president inciting a riot at the Capitol is historically significant, he says, and Americans need to remember this event for years to come. “It’s a dark day on the calendar of American history,” he says.…
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Politico Article: Max Cleland, A Veteran Who Kept Fighting From A Wheelchair
Long before he was a U.S. senator, Max Cleland, who died this year at 79, was a U.S. Army captain, a soldier’s soldier who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for valor in Vietnam. At the Battle of Khe Sanh, he lost both legs and his right arm, but he was never given to complaining. Like…
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NY Times: A Final Interview With Hank Aaron: ‘I Recognized That I Had a Gift’
I was born in Atlanta in 1960, and when the Braves moved to town from Milwaukee after the 1965 season, Hank Aaron became my all-seasons hero. That didn’t seem unusual in my family, because my New Jersey-bred mother and Pennsylvania-raised father considered themselves civil rights foot soldiers. But it was anathema to my white classmates.…
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Keynote talk: JFK and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley speaking at the 2019 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival on his new book American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race, that revisits this important chapter in America’s history. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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Douglas Brinkley on first lady Barbara Bush
The presidential historian Douglas Brinkley looks back on the life of the former first lady – a woman President George H.W. Bush lovingly referred to as “The Enforcer.”
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History with David M. Rubenstein: A Conversation with Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and Presidential Historian for CNN, in conversation with American philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group.
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New York Times Article: President Trump, Please Read ‘Desert Solitaire’
In a 1973 TV spot, the United States Forest Service sage Smokey Bear admonished that “one careless second with a match and America the beautiful becomes America the ugly.” Read Full Article Here
After the Hurricane Winds Die Down, Larry McMurtry’s Houston Trilogy Lives On
Some claim the three essential books in Texas history are the Bible, the Warren Commission report and Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about 19th-century cattle drives. Read Full Article Here
The New York Times: Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond
On April 23, 1851, Henry David Thoreau spoke at the Concord Lyceum about the interrelationship of God, man and nature. It was the opening salvo of the modern American conservation movement. Read Full Article Here
Rolling Stone: Chuck Berry’s Final Album: An In-Depth Preview
Wearing his trademark white yachting cap hat and a black silk jacket with a bolo tie, Chuck Berry looked content when I arrived at a nondescript recording studio in St. Louis to watch him demo a set of original songs for CHUCK. Read Full Article Here