Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Address

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The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia

Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson examines transgender identity and politics through the lens of American liberalism, arguing that anti-transgender politics cannot be understood by analyzing conservatism alone. She traces the emergence of transgender identity from middl ...  Show more

Chasing Hope in a Time of Crisis with Nicholas Kristof

How do you find hope in a deeply fractured and polarized world? In this timely and powerful conversation, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nicholas Kristof pulls from decades of reporting from global conflict zones and overlooked American communities to bring a deeply human pers ...  Show more

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