History With David Rubenstein

Season 5

TV-PG
David Rubenstein interviews renowned scholars and public figures in the U.S.

Where to Watch History With David Rubenstein • Season 5

10 Episodes

  • Beverly Gage
    E1
    Beverly GageBeverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history at Yale University and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.
  • Richard Haass
    E2
    Richard HaassRichard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens.
  • Craig L. Symonds
    E3
    Craig L. SymondsCraig L. Symonds is professor of history emeritus at the United States Naval Academy and the author of Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay.
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee
    E4
    Siddhartha MukherjeeIn the late 1600s, separated by the North Sea, English polymath Robert Hooke and Dutch cloth-merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked through their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine: complex living organisms are made up of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Hooke christened them “cells.”
  • Leslie M. Harris
    E5
    Leslie M. HarrisMany Americans’ knowledge of slavery is largely limited to the antebellum South, but prior to 1827, New York City actually had the largest enslaved population of any city outside of the South. In lower Manhattan, the African Burial Ground alone holds the remains of as many as 20,000 enslaved Blacks.
  • Jonathan Darman
    E6
    Jonathan DarmanIn popular memory, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the quintessential political “natural.” Yet for all his gifts, as a young man Roosevelt nonetheless lacked depth, empathy, and an ability to think strategically. Those qualities, so essential to his eventual success as president, were skills he acquired during his seven-year journey through illness and recovery.
  • Marie Arana
    E7
    Marie AranaIn 1960, one out of every 25 people in the United States was of Latino heritage. In 2023, it is one out of five. In 2050, it will be one in three. Latinos are our largest, oldest, most undercounted, fastest growing, and least understood community. Prizewinning author Marie Arana explains who they are and what they have meant to America.
  • Candice Millard
    E8
    Candice MillardCandice Millard, in conversation with David M. Rubenstein, offers an extraordinary account of President Garfield’s momentous, if brief, presidential career, and the legacy left not only by his work but by his death.
  • Fredrik Logevall
    E9
    Fredrik LogevallJohn F. Kennedy was one of the most iconic political figures of the 20th century, a man known universally by his initials. From his college days to the end in Dallas, he was fascinated by the nature of political courage and its relationship to democratic governance. How should we understand JFK and his role in US and world politics?
  • Jeffrey Frank
    E10
    Jeffrey FrankJournalist Jeffrey Frank.

 

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