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Lectures in History

Go back to school with the country's top professors lecturing on a variety of topics in American his

Episodes

Total: 325

In the first week of publication of Erik Larson's latest book, "The Demon of Unrest," sales put it a

In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allied leaders FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin

The Great Depression

2024/11/10

Indiana University history professor Carolina Ortega discussed the 1929 Great Depression, President

University of Dallas history professor William Atto discussed the decade leading to the 1787 Constit

Ryan White & the AIDS Epidemic

2024/10/27

Florida State University history professor Paul Renfro discussed the life and death of Indiana teena

America's National Pastime

2024/10/20

Boston College communications professor Michael Serazio discussed how baseball connects Americans to

University of North Carolina at Pembroke history professor Jamie Myers discussed Southeast Native Am

Hillsdale College history professor Mark Moyar discusses competing interpretations of the Vietnam Wa

Georgetown University English professor Christopher Shinn discussed the history and cultural recepti

Gilded Age Bohemians

2024/9/22

University of North Carolina at Pembroke professor Ryan Anderson discussed the rise of a Bohemian cu

Presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky discussed how presidential foreign policy and warmaking po

Ohio State University history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries discussed historical narratives of the

College of the Ozarks professor David Dalton, who teaches a class on 19th Century American history,

When Polls Go Bad

2024/8/25

American University Professor Joseph Campbell taught a class on public opinion and election forecast

Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote

2024/8/18

Former President Barack Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention was the t

Nixon, Ford & the Constitution

2024/8/11

Duquesne University president Ken Gormley taught a class looking at constitutional issues that arose

Hillsdale College Professor Richard Gamble taught a class on American churches and religion during W

The Red Scare 1940s-1950s

2024/7/28

University of California, Davis, history Professor Kathryn Olmsted taught a class on how the ‘Red Sc

Professor Benjamin Bankhurst talked about Appalachia in the American imagination. He described how t

Purdue University Professor Kathryn Brownell taught a class about political advertising in the 1950s