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History with David Rubenstein

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Produced by the New York Historical Society, "History with David Rubenstein" explores American history in half-hour conversations with distinguished authors and scholars who tell the country’s diverse stories, and explain why the past matters, how it informs the present, and what it portends for the future.

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Jeffrey Frank
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Jeffrey Frank is a former senior editor at The New Yorker.
Fredrik Logevall
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Fredrik Logevall is the author of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956.
Candice Millard
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Candice Millard offers an extraordinary account of President Garfield’s career.
Marie Arana
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Marie Arana is the author of LatinoLand, to be published in 2024.
Jonathan Darman
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Jonathan Darman is a former correspondent for Newsweek and the author of several books.
Leslie M. Harris
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Leslie M. Harris is professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a professor of medicine at Columbia University.
Craig L. Symonds
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Craig L. Symonds is professor of history emeritus at the United States Naval Academy.
Richard Haass
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Richard Haass is the author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens.
Beverly Gage
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Beverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history at Yale University.
Lynne Cheney
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Lynne Cheney examines the friendships and rivalries within the “Virginia Dynasty.”
Tracy Campbell
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Author and historian Tracy Campbell examines the critical year of 1942.
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