Video & Audio

Writer and journalist Amy Waldman is writing a nonfiction book on the human relationship with snow.

Writer Mona Simpson is at work on several new novel ideas -- one of them about FDR's most trusted women.

In his book project “A Wiser World,” Zachary Shore asks what history can teach us about making wise decisions.

Max K. Strassfeld challenges current scholarship tracing the origins of life-cycle rituals to rabbinic literature.

Why the war started and how its origins have influenced the its ongoing course.

Historian Nell Irvin Painter reflects on how her experiences living abroad have shaped her views on history and race.

Historian James N. Green traces the emergence of student-led mobilization efforts in the years preceding the fall of the Brazilian dictatorship.

Historian Michael Kimmage examins the origins of the war in Ukraine and its effects on global order.

Michael Kimmage addresses the Ukrain war's impact on Europe and the transatlantic relationship, in discussion with Oleksii Makeiev, Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany and Barbara Lippert, Director of Research, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Daniel Benjamin, president of the American Academy in Berlin, discussed the campus turmoil of 2024 with student journalist Theo Baker, sociologist Nicholas Christakis, and pollster Laura Silver.