The 2015 Winant Lecture in American Government. Byron Shafer is Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Party Balance, Partisan Polarization, and Policy Conflict: The Evolution of American Politics, 1932-2014

The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. David Sehat is a cultural and intellectual historian of the United States. He writes broadly on American intellectual, political, and cultural life. He is the author of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible (Simon and Schuster, 2015) and The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxford, 2011; updated edn. 2015), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.

Politics After God

Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca

The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps

Professor Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. His research interests are in the history of war, politics, and citizenship in modern American history.

Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory

A public lecture for a series on the United States and World War One.

America and the Treaty of Versailles

Lyndon Johnson, the modern presidency and the Civil Rights Movement.

Joining the Revolution

A public lecture by Professor David Lubin (Wake Forest University) as part of a series on the history of the United States and World War One.

‘O Say Can You See?’ Art, Propaganda and the First World War

A public lecture on the United States and World War One

“Deeds Not Words”: American Social Justice Movements and World War One

Robert Schmuhl (Notre Dame) gives a talk on the Easter Rising as part of the American History Research Seminar series.

‘Exiled Children’ and the Easter Rising: America and Irish Independence

Sir Hew Strachan delivers the first Rothermere American Institute Lecture at the annual Chalke Valley History Festival on 29 June 2016.

Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War

Mr Price, who joined the staff of the Nixon administration in 1969, working in the Urban Affairs Council, discusses the relationship between Moynihan and Nixon during the Nixon presidency.

The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Robert Scott (President Emeritus, Adelphi University, and RAI), gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on the state of American higher education.

American Higher Education: Observations from the Field

The Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, delivers the RAI’s inaugural Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations

Anglo-American Relations - The Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture 2015

Christopher P. ‘Kip’ Hall (DLA Piper and University of Connecticut) gives a talk on Fraud in American Capital markets. Part of the American Business: Past, Present and Future series.

Combatting Fraud in the US Capital Markets

The Hon. Christopher Bancroft Burnham, Former US Under Secretary of State and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute seminar series

American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

Podcasts of lectures and seminars held at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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