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8:30 AM BREAKfAST AND OpENINg SESSION

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2013: Supreme Decisions

Who gets to marry? Who gets to vote? Who gets to go to college? This year’s Supreme Court term is tackling myriad issues that for years have sparked debate in statehouses, courtrooms and classrooms across the nation. Hear what our panel of renowned legal scholars — Akhil ReeD AMAR, linDA GReenhOuSe and BennO SchMiDt— has to say about this year’s cases and how their outcomes will affect the nation.

10:15 AM Members choose one of the following sessions:

Death and the civil War

More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives during the Civil War. The brutality of the conflict forever transformed the American people and their understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Join historian and Harvard president DReW GilPin FAuSt and documentary filmmaker Ric BuRnS in conversation about how Ameri-cans mobilized in response to the crisis and improvised new solutions and institutions—including the establishment of ambulatory corps and national cemeteries—to address the unprecedented scale of loss.

cronkite

For decades, Walter Cronkite served as a national voice during some of the most profound moments in modern American history, including Kennedy’s assassination, Apollos 11 and 13, and the Watergate scandal. However, despite his prominence and his audience of millions, Cronkite was a remarkably private man. Drawing on unprecedented access to Cronkite's papers and hundreds of interviews, biographer DOuGlAS

BRinkley reveals a deeply personal portrait of an American icon.

ike's Bluff: President eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

Assuming the presidency in 1953, the venerated Dwight D. Eisenhower was often regarded by the American public as a benign figure—comforting and reassuring, albeit somewhat bland. Professor evAn thOMAS strips away Ike’s composed façade to reveal a brilliant, crafty, and— at times—fiery tactician who led the nation through one of the darkest periods of the Cold War.

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1913

In 1913, America was a nation undergoing monumental transition. Peabody Award-winning reporter kAti MARtOn will moderate as financier JAMeS GRAnt, architectural historian chRiStOPheR GRAy and World War I historian JAy WinteR delve 100 years into our past and examine the triumphs and tribulations of a remarkable year, when the world was on the brink of war.

12:30 pM LuNcHEON AND cLOSINg SESSION

the World economy: A Brighter horizon?

Have past excesses diminished future growth opportunities? The years of rapid economic expansion and prolonged prosperity seem to be behind us; but are they, really? Financial prognosticator ByROn Wien, Vice President of Blackstone Advisory Partners, is joined by respected experts Steven RAttneR and GilliAn tett to assess the missteps that led the world into financial turmoil and explore possible solutions to stimulate new growth—both nationally and abroad—after years of anemic recovery and instability.

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PReSentAtiOn of the 2013 New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize honoring the author of this year’s best book in the field of American history or biography.

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Roger Hertog, Chairman of the Board of Trustees

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Akhil ReeD AMAR

Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

DOuGlAS BRinkley

Professor of History, Rice University

Ric BuRnS

Documentary Filmmaker

DReW GilPin FAuSt

President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University

JAMeS GRAnt

Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

chRiStOPheR GRAy

“Streetscapes” Columnist, Sunday Real Estate Section, The New York Times

linDA GReenhOuSe

Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School

kAti MARtOn

Author and Human Rights Activist

Steven RAttneR

Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC

BennO SchMiDt

Chairman of the Board, City University of New York (CUNY)

GilliAn tett

Assistant Editor and Columnist, Financial Times

evAn thOMAS

Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University

ByROn Wien

Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory Partners LP

JAy WinteR

Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University

Akhil Reed Amar

Joyce Appleby

Debby Applegate

Sven Beckert

Thomas Bender

David Blight

Douglas Brinkley

Ric Burns

David cannadine

Robert A. caro

Ron chernow

Andrew Delbanco

Eric foner

Henry Louis gates, Jr.

Doris Kearns goodwin

John Steele gordon

Harold Holzer

Daniel Walker Howe

Kenneth T. Jackson

Edward p. Jones

David Kennedy

Jill Lepore

pauline Maier

Steven Mintz

David Nasaw

Andrew Roberts

cokie Roberts

Simon Schama

Stacy Schiff

Benno c. Schmidt

Russell Shorto

peter Silver

Jean Edward Smith

Lesley Stahl

Robert A.M. Stern

Richard Sylla

Sean Wilentz

Jay Winik

gordon Wood

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Underwood & Underwood, Mrs. Phillip Lydig, Mrs. John Blair, and Miss Charlotte Delgfield in the “Wake Up America” Demonstration (detail), 1917. Photograph. New-York Historical Society, PR 068

Victor Nehlig, An Episode of War, The Calvary Charge of Lt. Henry B. Hidden (detail), 1862. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of William H. Webb, 1875.2

Bill Ingalls, NASA Remembers Walter Cronkite (detail), 2009. Retrieved on December 20, 2012. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Unidentified maker, ‘I Like Ike’ Button (detail), 1952-1956. Metal. New-York Historical Society, INV.6846

Apeda Studios, Woolworth Building (detail). Negative; 4x5 in. New-York Historical Society, 71981

William Holbrook Beard, The Bulls and Bears in the Market (detail), 1879. Oil on linen. New-York Historical Society, Purchase by the Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund, 1971.104

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Howard Thain, Park Avenue at 42nd Street, NYC, (detail), 1927. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mrs. Howard Thain, 1970.40

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