Rothermere American Institute

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A public lecture on the United States and World War One

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History 2014 by Professor David Armitage. David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard, where he teaches intellectual and international history. Born in Britain and educated at Cambridge and Princeton, he taught at Columbia University for 11 years before moving to Harvard in 2004. He has pursued the concept and themes of Atlantic history as co-editor and contributor to volumes on The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (2nd edn., 2009), The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (2010), and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, and People (2014).

Michael Aronstein, President, Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer of Marketfield Asset Management (New York) delivers a lecture in the Institute’s ‘American Business: Past, Present and Future’ series. Michael Aronstein began his investment career in 1979 at Merrill Lynch, eventually becoming Senior Market Analyst, Senior Investment Strategist, and Manager of Global Investment Strategy. His written work has been cited by Institutional Investor as the most valuable strategic research on Wall Street. A graduate of Yale College, he co-founded Comstock Partners in 1986, later serving as its President for six years, and joined Oscar Gruss & Son Incorporated as Chief Investment Strategist in 2004.

Writer Claire Messud gives the Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters 2014

Chairman and Founder of the Bridgespan Group Thomas J. Tierney gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on philanthropy and how many Americans are giving back to society

Please note. The final 10 minutes to this podcast are Audio Only. We apologise for the inconvenience. Forty years after President Richard Nixon resigned from office following the Watergate scandal, Alexander Butterfield, Deputy Assistant to President Nixon, and John Price, Special Assistant to President Nixon for Urban Affairs, will discuss their experiences of working for the enigmatic and controversial 37th President of the United States at a special seminar at the RAI on Wednesday 12 March at 5pm.