Amid the red tomatoes and pale yellow ears of corn at the county fair, Jim Richardson, National Geographic photographer, won his first photography award: a
Morning Lecture
Jim Richardson, longtime ‘Nat’l Geographic’ photographer, to share shots illuminating ‘End of Night’
Lee Drutman’s closing lecture of the Week Five Chautauqua Lecture Series theme on “The Vote and Democracy” was titled “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop.” And
A Democrat voting for a Republican, or vice versa, seems to Lee Drutman like an impossible chasm to cross these days. What can America build
Where the United States draws the line in election law has never been more important to the preservation of democracy — especially when it comes
According to Michael Li, there’s a battle being waged in the United States, and it’s happening all around us: redistricting. “We completed the latest round
Right off the bat, American democracy is not playing the same softball game it was back in 1776, as Jelani Cobb, historian, Peabody Award winner,
When Linda Chavez was running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland in 1986, the campaign trail brought her to Cumberland, Maryland — a small city
In 2018, New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb first came to Chautauqua Institution to speak about “we the people” during a week themed “American Identity.”
In January 1996, less than 30% of Americans trusted the media to deal fairly with all sides of political issues; less than 30% trusted the
Trevor Potter began his lecture with a simple quote from Benjamin Franklin. Franklin, asked by a woman outside Independence Hall what the Constitutional Convention had
When it comes to speaking at Chautauqua, this isn’t Trevor Potter’s first rodeo — and there’s always been a common theme to his lectures. In
When many people think of diaries, the first that often comes to mind is The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank. However, writer
Jon Meacham last spoke to a Chautauqua audience from a computer screen, in the middle of the 2020 virtual season on CHQ Assembly. He spoke
In order to be a “writer,” many people believe that one must have a degree or writing experience. However, author, writer and historian Alexandra Zapruder
A renowned presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, contributing editor at TIME, husband and father. These are a few of many titles to describe Jon Meacham
Teachers and professors across the nation sing an oft-repeated refrain: students cannot cite Wikipedia as a source. Andrew Lih is very aware of that tendency,