Speeches and Panel Appearances

Churchill, Roosevelt & Company

November 18, 2017 – International Churchill Society’s 34th International Churchill Conference
Lewis Lehrman talks about his book, Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft, on the parallel lives of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the partnership they forged against the Axis powers to win World War II, with an introduction from Natalie Ellis.

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Churchill, Roosevelt & Company

May 3, 2017 – New-York Historical Society (New York, NY)
Lewis Lehrman talks about his book, Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft, on the parallel lives of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the partnership they forged against the Axis powers to win World War II.

The 1983 Kemp-Mundell Conference

April 21, 2017 – Jack Kemp Foundation
Lewis E. Lehrman, a participant in the 1983 Kemp-Mundell Conference on exchange rates and the dollar discusses the event.

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Award Ceremony for Hamilton

December 14, 2015 – C-SPAN
Lin-Manuel Miranda was presented with a Special Achievement Award from the board of the George Washington Book Prize. Mr. Miranda is the playwright, lyricist, composer, and star of the Broadway musical Hamilton. The musical uses rap and hip-hop music to tell the story of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. This was the first time the board presented a prize for a play.

2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History

March 23, 2015 – C-SPAN
The 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, worth $50,000, was awarded on March 23, 2015, in New York City. Finalists for the prize read selections from their books prior to the award winner being announced. David Reynolds provided taped remarks as he was unable to attend the event.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Character

April 23, 2014 – New-York Historical Society (New York, NY)
Lewis Lehrman talks about President Abraham Lincoln’s education and character. He describes the 16th president as a man with less than a year of formal schooling, who nonetheless schooled himself in America’s founding documents. Mr. Lehrman also discusses the principles that made President Lincoln a self-made “man of ideas,” who battled for the nation’s founding values of freedom and equality.

Money, Gold, and History

July 18, 2013 – CATO Institute (Washington, DC)
Lewis Lehrman talks about his book, Money, Gold, and History, in which he calls for a return to the gold standard, which he argues will help improve our economy. Featuring Lewis E. Lehrman, Author, Money, Gold, and History, Founder and Chairman, Lehrman Institute; and Addison Wiggin, Executive Publisher, Agora Financial, LLC; moderated by Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.

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History of the Gold Standard

May 17, 2012 – New-York Historical Society (New York, NY)
Lewis Lehrman, James Grant, and Ed Chancellor debate the origins, benefits, and drawbacks of the gold standard system. They also discuss why the U.S. left the gold standard, and the arguments for reinstating it.

Lewis E. Lehrman at Capitol Hill Hearing on Monetary Policy and Rising Prices

March 17, 2011
Lewis E. Lehrman testified today with Journalist James Grant and Prof. James Salerno.

Jack Kemp Oral History Project Interview

December 14, 2011 – Jack Kemp Foundation
Morton Kondracke interviews Lewis E. Lehrman for the Jack Kemp Oral History Project. A full transcript of this interview can be found here.

Lincoln and Wilberforce

May 4, 2009 – The History Channel
Historian Lewis E. Lehrman remarks on the impact of President Abraham Lincoln and William Wilberforce and the campaign to abolish slavery in the United States and Britain.

Washington DC
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Lincoln Prize Ceremony

April 14, 2004 – C-SPAN
The Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College presented the annual Lincoln Prize awards.

Frederick Douglass Book Prize Dinner

February 28, 2002 – C-SPAN
Officials of the Gilder Lehrman Institute presented the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

Washington DC
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American History

April 18, 2000 – C-SPAN
The co-founders of the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History talked about their organization.

Frederick Douglass Book Prize Dinner

February 8, 2000 – C-SPAN
The first Frederick Douglass Prize for a book on slavery or abolition was shared by Professor Ira Berlin.

Washington DC
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Washington DC
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President Reagan at Jack Kemp Tribute

December 1 1988 – C-SPAN
The co-founders of the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History talked about their organization.

Tribute to Rep. Jack Kemp

December 1, 1988 – C-SPAN
The Heritage Foundation sponsored a farewell dinner for Rep. Jack Kemp who is retiring.

Washington DC
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Keynes Celebrates the End of the Gold Standard

Enjoy one of the very few video footage of John Maynard Keynes as he discusses the positive implications the end of the Gold Standard would have on Great Britain.