Historian and former presidential speechwriter Ted Widmer traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America in a conversation with the New York Times’s Jamelle Bouie. This event is the keynote for the New York Society Library’s season celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Revolutionary Spaces hosts a conversation between Ted Widmer and Boston Globe editor Brian Bergstein at the Old State House in Boston.
How did Americans reconcile the Declaration of Independence’s soaring promise of equality with the poisonous reality of slavery? Ted Widmer joins Christina Shutt, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, for a discussion framed by readings of historical texts by actors Maura Kidwell and Chiké Johnson. This program is presented by Chicago Public Library, in partnership with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum.
In this episode of The Road to Now podcast with author and musician Bob Crawford, Ted Widmer discusses The Living Declaration, which brings together an impressive set of documents that demonstrate the Declaration’s impact on people in the US and around the world.
Ted Widmer discusses The Living Declaration with Brian Lamb on this episode of Booknotes+ podcast on C-Span, and talks about the foreword by historian Gordon S. Wood, who died days before the book’s publication.
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