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PBS NewsHour | Historical Views on a 'Holy Day in Our Civic Religion' | PBS

Duration: 06:38
Program: PBS NewsHour #10546
Broadcast Date: Jan. 21, 2013

How do we compare President Obama's latest inaugural address to those of presidents past? Jeffrey Brown talks to historians Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University, Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University and Beverly Gage of Yale University about the 57th Presidential Inauguration and the echoes found in U.S. history.

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Post Date: January 21, 2013