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Sermons & Speaker Series

St. John's, Lafayette Square•www.stjohns-dc.org
Religion & Spirituality
Sermons & Speaker Series from St. John's, Lafayette Square.
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Kim Sajet, the first female director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

Kim Sajet, the first female director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, will speak about the gallery. Sajet is known for a cross-disciplinary approach that merges painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video, and performance, to make the past personal and deepen our understanding of how people have changed the course of history.

Mar 11, 2023•13 min

Sean Wilentz, Professor of History at Princeton University

Sean Wilentz, Professor of History at Princeton University and author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008. Professor Wilentz studies U.S. political and social history. His book The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Feb 27, 2023•45 min

Tim Naftali on the Presidency of Ronald Reagan

Tim Naftali is the director of the undergraduate public policy major and a Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service at New York University and previously served as founding director of the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Naftali has published a number of books and articles on national security and intelligence policy, international history and presidential history. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN.com, The Los ...

Feb 26, 2023•45 min

Fred Ryan: President Reagan’s former Chief of Staff and the current publisher of The Washington Post

President Reagan’s former Chief of Staff and the current publisher of The Washington Post will speak on the Reagan presidency. Ryan is the author of Wine in the White House, published by the White House Historical Association in 2020; editor of Ronald Reagan: The Wisdom and Humor of the Great Communicator, published by Harper Collins in 1995, and Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator, published by Harper Collins in 2001; and executive producer of the highly acclaimed video of the Reagan presiden...

Feb 12, 2023•46 min

Beverly Gage, Professor of 20th-century American history at Yale

Beverly Gage, Professor of 20th-century American history at Yale, will talk about her newest book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Gage is also author of The Day Wall Street Exploded, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She writes frequently for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, among other publications.

Jan 23, 2023•46 min

Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief and an expert on Russia

Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief and an expert on Russia, will speak about the Russia-Ukraine war. Dougherty is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies; a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.; and a member of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute Advisory Council.

Jan 23, 2023•46 min
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