The Great Depression and the Second World War
David Wrobel, a David L. Boren Professor and Merrick Chair of Western American History, delivers the opening lecture of the 2013 Teach-In.
Christina Romer, a Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, places the Great Depression into modern context.
David Kennedy, professor emeritus of History at Stanford University, considers how WWII shaped the contemporary world.
H.W. Brands, a professor and Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas, reflects on the presidential tenure of Franklin Roosevelt and the period of American leadership that came about during it.
A Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, constitutional studies specialist Noah Feldman served as the 2013 Teach-In's keynote lecturer.
