Lectures in History

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Join students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9-11.

  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War

    Hillsdale College history professor Mark Moyar discusses competing interpretations of the Vietnam War when it comes to questions about the necessity of the conflict and whether it was winnable for the United States.

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    6 October 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 42 minutes
    Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"

    Georgetown University English professor Christopher Shinn discussed the history and cultural reception of Truman Capote's 1967"In Cold Blood" as well as its impact on the genres of pulp fiction and true crime novels.

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    29 September 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    Gilded Age Bohemians

    University of North Carolina at Pembroke professor Ryan Anderson discussed the rise of a Bohemian culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that rejected conventional societal restraints and embraced the arts.

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    22 September 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    The American Presidency and Foreign Policy

    Presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky discussed how presidential foreign policy and warmaking powers evolved from the time of George Washington to the modern era

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    15 September 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 39 minutes
    Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement

    Ohio State University history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries discussed historical narratives of the Civil Rights Movement and modern understandings of victories, defeats and what the movement was trying to achieve. Professor Jeffries is the brother of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). 

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    8 September 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Rise of Industry in the Gilded age

    College of the Ozarks professor David Dalton, who teaches a class on 19th Century American history, discussed the rise of American industry in the Gilded Age. College of the Ozarks is located in Point Lookout, Missouri.

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    1 September 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    When Polls Go Bad

    American University Professor Joseph Campbell taught a class on public opinion and election forecasting. He spoke about some of the most significant polling misses in American politics. American University is located in Washington, D.C.

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    25 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote

    Former President Barack Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas political communication professor Robert Rowland. The University of Kansas is in Lawrence, Kansas.

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    18 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Nixon, Ford & the Constitution

    Duquesne University president Ken Gormley taught a class looking at constitutional issues that arose during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He gave particular focus to the Watergate investigation and questions of control over Nixon’s secretly recorded White House tapes, as well as issues surrounding Ford’s pardon of Nixon following the 37th president’s resignation in August 1974. Duquesne University moved its classes online due to the coronavirus pandemic, and video of the class is courtesy of the school.

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    11 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    American Churches During World War 1

    Hillsdale College Professor Richard Gamble taught a class on American churches and religion during World War I. He discussed how American pastors, ministers, and rabbis spoke about the Great War before and after the U.S. entered the conflict. This lecture was part of a course titled “The U.S. from the Great War to the Cold War.” Hillsdale College is located in Hillsdale, Michigan.

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    4 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    The Red Scare 1940s-1950s

    University of California, Davis, history Professor Kathryn Olmsted taught a class on how the ‘Red Scare’ evolved into a wide-ranging conspiracy theory in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.

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    28 July 2024, 12:00 am
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