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 18 minutes
    SHORT SERIES: Satchel Paige, Negro Leagues Baseball, and Civil Rights

    Professor Donald Spivey talked about the legacy of pitcher Satchel Paige and Negro Leagues baseball. Satchel Paige was the first Negro Leagues player to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Professor Spivey also explained the ways that Paige and other Negro Leagues players and owners contributed to the struggle for civil rights, including fighting Jim Crow laws, financially supporting groups like the NAACP, and fostering friendships with white players in Major League Baseball. 

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    22 December 2024, 1:02 am
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    SHORT SERIES: Baseball in the Gilded Age

    Professor Joan Waugh talked about the rise of baseball as a national activity, spectator event, and business. She described the efforts of baseball club owners to codify the rules of the games, establish a national league, and attract a broad middle class audience.

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    22 December 2024, 1:01 am
  • 1 hour 8 seconds
    SHORT SERIES: Baseball During the Depression

    Pepperdine University professor Loretta Hunnicutt taught a class about baseball during the Great Depression. She looked at the role of baseball in American culture and the origins of sports journalism.

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    22 December 2024, 1:00 am
  • 56 minutes 19 seconds
    1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 2

    University of Maryland history professor Michael discussed, in the second of a two part lecture, the 1893 trial of Lizzie Borden. She was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe. The murders and trial received widespread publicity at the time and Lizzie Borden became a lasting figure in American popular culture.

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    15 December 2024, 1:00 am
  • 57 minutes 20 seconds
    1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 1

    University of Maryland history professor Michael Ross discussed the 1893 trial of Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe. The murders and trial received widespread publicity at the time and Lizzie Borden became a lasting figure in American popular culture. This is the first of a two-part lecture.

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    8 December 2024, 1:00 am
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

    Richard Brookhiser has written and edited for National Review magazine for over 50 years. He has also written books about George Washington, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, and "gentleman revolutionary" Gouverneur Morris. Now comes his latest, "Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution." Trumbull, who lived between 1756 and 1843, was most famous for his 4 very large paintings about the Revolutionary War on the walls of the rotunda in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

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    30 November 2024, 11:00 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    FEED DROP: Booknotes+ Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"

    In the first week of publication of Erik Larson's latest book, "The Demon of Unrest," sales put it at the very top of the bestseller list. It's about the start of the Civil War, with a focus on the five months between Abraham Lincoln's election and the day of the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, which is off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. That was April 12, 1861. In his introduction, Erik Larson writes: "I invite you now to step into the past, to that time of fear and dissension…I suspect your sense of dread will be all the more pronounced in light of today's political discord…"

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    23 November 2024, 11:00 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"

    In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allied leaders FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin were planning to meet secretly in Tehran. The Nazis wanted to kill them.

    In his book "Night of the Assassins," author Howard Blum tells the story of "Operation Long Jump," the code name for the Nazi plan to assassinate the Allied leaders. In telling this story, author Blum says: "I wanted to write a suspenseful character-driven story of men, heroes, and villains caught up in a tense, desperate time, who needed to find courage and cunning to do their duty for their countries and to fulfill their own sense of honor."

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    16 November 2024, 11:00 pm
  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    The Great Depression

    Indiana University history professor Carolina Ortega discussed the 1929 Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and the impact that the economic crash had on various populations, including Mexican- Americans.

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    10 November 2024, 1:00 am
  • 56 minutes 23 seconds
    Road to the 1787 Constitutional Convention

    University of Dallas history professor William Atto discussed the decade leading to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the key compromises that led to the ratification of the United States Constitution.

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    3 November 2024, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    Ryan White & the AIDS Epidemic

    Florida State University history professor Paul Renfro discussed the life and death of Indiana teenager Ryan White, who emerged as one of the faces of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

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    27 October 2024, 12:00 am
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