Huey Long was the 40th Governor of Louisiana, from 1928 to 1932.  He was also a United States Senator from Louisiana, from 1932 to 1935. Huey Long was a powerful and controversial figure in Louisiana politics, and was assassinated in September 1935.A panel of history professors discuss the life, legacy and accomplishments of Huey Long.

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On the 150th anniversary of the election of the 16th president, author Harold Holzer spoke to the annual Lincoln Forum about Abraham Lincoln’s strategic silence during what was known as "The Secession Winter." From Election Day until Inauguration Day in March 1861, Lincoln declined to speak publicly. Lincoln called his silence "masterful inactivity."

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• 7:45am - Peter Wehner, Ethics & Public Policy Center, Senior Fellow & Bill Press, Radio Talk Show Host
• 8:30am - Stephen Bell, Bipartisan Policy Center, Visiting Scholar
• 9:15am - Julie Rovner, National Public Radio, Health Policy Correspondent

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In January 1776, Thomas Pain published “Common Sense”, which expressed his arguments for American independence.  The work and its ideas proved to be extremely influential. From the New Rochelle Public Library in New Rochelle, New York, a discussion on Thomas Paine and his role in the American Revolution as an author, soldier and founding father.

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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began his career as a public servant as an administrative aide in Congress.  Almost fifty years later, the Nixon Foundation honored him with the Victory of Freedom Award for his commitment to government at the Nixon Library.

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Former Capitol Hill staffers Tricia Paoletta and Catherine McCullough offer their insights on potential telecommunications and technology policy in the 112th Congress. Over the past few weeks, the Communicators examined how the new Republican majority in the how will approach communications policy and spending.

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Richard Norton Smith teaches a class on the American presidency at George Mason University. In today’s class, he focuses on what he calls the beginning of the “modern presidency”, with a focus on William McKinley. Next week, we’ll see the second half of the class, which examines the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

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Plymouth Notch, Vermont is the birthplace and boyhood home of the United States’ 30th president, Calvin Coolidge.  In August of 2010, the Coolidge Museum and Education Center opened in Plymouth Notch.

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This case, “Domino’s Pizza v. John McDonald,” entails a breach of contract after Domino's Pizza terminated its agreement with JWM Investments. John McDonald, the president and sole shareholder of the company, brought suit under a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C. Section 1981).He claimed that Domino's ended its contract because he was black, a violation of the Act, which gives all citizens, regardless of race, the right to make and enforce contracts.

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Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with forty percent of the popular vote.  Most of those votes would come from the support of Northern voters. How did the South perceive Lincoln after the election?  The director of the Civil War Institute, Peter Carmichael, addressed that topic at the Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg.

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