David Kurlander

David Kurlander works as Special Assistant to Preet Bharara. He graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a degree in History & Literature. He is an avid amateur archival historian of American political history and is excited to share some of his findings.

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‘We’re Here Because We’re Masochists’: Searching for Good Taste at the 1996 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

President Biden last Saturday night cracked jokes about his own age and reelection campaign at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. On this week’s episode of Now & Then, “Not a Joke: Humor as Politics,” Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman discussed the power of political comedy, from Seba Smith’s satirical 1830s “Major Jack Downing” character […]

‘A Very, Very Serious Violation’: Lawyer Thomas G. Corcoran and Improper Influences on the Supreme Court

‘Through Difficulties to the Stars’: Tennessee Legislator Samuel Allen McElwee’s Fight for Black Representation

‘It Could Have Happened to Anybody’: Professor Frederick Barghoorn, President Kennedy, and Soviet Detainments

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Now & Then Backstage 4/12: Hostages as Messages

‘A New Testing Period’: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and President Gerald Ford’s First Meeting

‘Calling Bob Morgenthau’: The Tensions Between the Manhattan District Attorney and President George H.W. Bush

‘We Had a Bank to Finance Things’: C. Arnholt Smith and the Collapse of the United States National Bank

‘Getting on the Staff’: Frona Eunice Wait’s Journalistic Odyssey

‘The Fumes Were Something Terrible’: The Struggle to Clean Ohio’s Chem-Dyne Superfund Site

‘Carrying the Role of Homemaker Too Far’: Iris Rivera’s 1977 Coffee Revolt and the Shifting Role of Secretaries

‘The Ownership of the Upper Air’: Project Genetrix and the Debate Over Cold War Spy Balloons

‘A Philosophical Shrug’: The Difficult Birth of the House Intelligence Committee