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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And finally tonight, a July 4 view of America through last week's landmark decisions at the Supreme Court.
Two were seen as victories for gay rights advocates, and another struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
For some long-view perspective on the court and its rulings, yesterday, I sat down with four historians.
And joining me are Ellen Fitzpatrick, political historian at the University of New Hampshire, Kenneth Mack, who specializes in civil rights history and race relations at Harvard Law School, George Chauncey, a historian at Yale University who has written widely on the gay rights movement -- he served as an expert witness in the same-sex marriage cases decided last week -- and presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
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