Douglas Brinkley Audio & Video

In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Alabama....

A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative.

Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times best-selling author Kabir Sehgal examines the relationship between the US and Mexico...

Hope and History is both a memoir and a call to action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America.

Brinkley offers a chronicle of both the heroism of the brave men who conquered Point du Hoc on June 6, 1944, as well as the speech President Ronald Reagan made there on June 6, 1984.

The acclaimed historian and bestselling author of "Tour of Duty" and "The Boys of Pointe du Hoc" offers the first in-depth biography of the Roman Catholic priest who fought against prejudice and founded the Knights of Columbus.

New York Times bestselling author Brinkley tells the complete tale of the 2005 storm that forced him and thousands of his fellow New Orleanians from their homes, offering a unique, piercing analysis of the ongoing crisis and its repercussions for America.

Subtitled Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House, Brinkley details how Jimmy Carter, unlike most ex-presidents, has done more since leaving the White House in 1980 than most people do in a lifetime.

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches…

Historian Fredrik Logevall moderates a discussion between JFK's nephew Stephen Kennedy Smith and renowned historian Douglas Brinkley, who are joined by Ambassador Samantha Power and journalist Ron Suskind on the legacy of JFK.