Event Details

End: September 26, 2020
Contact: gfolsom@historians.org
More Info: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A5dtfh2ER1WHrgiLlU-Xkg

In preparation for the first 2020 presidential debates on September 29, this panel offers a historical examination of debates for the nation's highest office and connects these historical precedents with the current contest.

Chair: Joanne B. Freeman, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and of American Studies, Yale University

Panelists: Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Associate Professor, Purdue University,

Peniel E. Joseph, Professor, Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, University of Texas-Austin

Newton N. Minow, Member, Commission on Presidential Debates; former Chair, Federal Communications Commission