Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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President Beong-Soo Kim sits down with Distinguished Professor Peter Mancall, one of the nation’s leading scholars of early North America, to discuss his forthcoming book Contested Continent, the deeper forces that shaped the nation’s founding, and the lasting value of studying history. With USC serving as the only university host of the National Archives’ traveling exhibition of founding-era documents, they explore deep scholarship, public memory, and the role higher education plays in connecting the past to the present.

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