XV.  In late 2019, the National Archives hosted financier David Rubenstein for a wide-ranging conversation with a group of master historians featured in Rubenstein’s book of interviews entitled “The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians.”  We hear from:

* Taylor Branch, creator of three volumes that chronicle the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., including “Parting the Waters,” winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

* H.W. Brands, a history professor at the University of Texas and author of biographies of Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan and, in 2019, of “Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West.”

* Jay Winik, author of books including “April 1865: The Month That Saved America,” and “1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History.”