Lectures in History

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Go back to school with the country's top professors lecturing on a variety of topics in American history. New episodes posted every Saturday evening. From C-SPAN, the network that brings you "After Words" and "C-SPAN's The Weekly" podcasts.

Episode Date
Reagan's 1982 Address to Parliament
Apr 28, 2024
HBCUs & Student Activism in North Carolina
Apr 21, 2024
Women & Employment Laws in the Early 20th Century
Apr 14, 2024
Mamie Till-Mobley & Remembering Emmett Till
Apr 07, 2024
Richard Nixon & the 1968 Election
Mar 31, 2024
The Development of the Early Republic
Mar 24, 2024
Abortion and Reproductive Rights
Mar 17, 2024
1970s Labor & Working Class
Mar 10, 2024
Army Explorers of the West
Mar 03, 2024
History of Emergency Medical Services
Feb 25, 2024
1909 Missoula Labor & Free Speech Fight
Feb 18, 2024
The Story of Public Health
Feb 11, 2024
1925 Scopes Monkey Trial Part 2
Feb 04, 2024
1925 Scopes Monkey Trial Part 1
Jan 28, 2024
Presidential Scandals
Jan 21, 2024
History of Artificial Intelligence
Jan 13, 2024
Cults & American Culture
Jan 07, 2024
Slavery in the Northern Colonies
Dec 31, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen
Dec 27, 2023
Legacy of President Jimmy Carter
Dec 24, 2023
The Cold War & Global Literature
Dec 17, 2023
Soldier, Diplomat & Civil Rights Leader Charles Young
Dec 10, 2023
Television, Internet & White House Communications
Dec 03, 2023
FEED DROP: JFK 60 Years Later Ep. 1 & Ep. 2
Nov 25, 2023
World War II Battle of the Atlantic
Nov 19, 2023
FEED DROP: Booknotes+ - Lindsay Chervinsky, "The Cabinet"
Nov 12, 2023
Abraham Lincoln & Emancipation
Nov 05, 2023
Furniture Making in Sumter, S.C.
Oct 29, 2023
The Church in Colonial California
Oct 22, 2023
Colonial Tensions Before The Revolution
Oct 15, 2023
Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote Address
Oct 08, 2023
C.S. Lewis & Natural Law
Oct 01, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: Q&A with AHTV's & BookTV's John McArdle
Sep 29, 2023
The Great Society & the Welfare State
Sep 24, 2023
The Oregon Country
Sep 17, 2023
Worth Bagley & Civil War Reconciliation
Sep 10, 2023
Ludlow Coal Miners' Strike and Massacre
Sep 03, 2023
Coroners in the 19th Century South
Aug 27, 2023
U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II
Aug 20, 2023
Q&A: Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848
Aug 13, 2023
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Aug 06, 2023
Playwright August Wilson and Fences
Jul 30, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: The Atomic Bomb
Jul 26, 2023
1970s American Car Culture and Film
Jul 23, 2023
White House Myths
Jul 16, 2023
New York City and Broadway in the 1960s
Jul 09, 2023
Lead-Up to the Battle of Gettysburg
Jul 02, 2023
Jean Harris & Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder Trial
Jun 25, 2023
Landscape Preservation and National Parks
Jun 18, 2023
The Underground Railroad
Jun 11, 2023
The Ohio Dynasty of Presidents
Jun 04, 2023
Colonial Myths and Monuments
May 28, 2023
The 1990s
May 20, 2023
Evolution of Job Skills & Rise of Robots
May 14, 2023
Native American Art & Museum Collections
May 07, 2023
Vietnam War's "Operation Rolling Thunder"
Apr 29, 2023
The Outdoor History of Columbia, South Carolina
Apr 22, 2023
The 1960s Underground Press
Apr 15, 2023
Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War
Apr 08, 2023
Puritanism & the Enlightenment in Colonial America
Apr 01, 2023
Legacy of President Jimmy Carter
Mar 25, 2023
West Virginia Statehood
Mar 19, 2023
The 'Red Scare' (1940s-50s)
Mar 12, 2023
Gays & Lesbians in Colonial America
Mar 05, 2023
Black Women During Reconstruction
Feb 26, 2023
Immigration & Working Class Life in the American Industrial Age
Feb 19, 2023
The Clinton Presidency
Feb 12, 2023
History of State of the Union Addresses
Feb 05, 2023
The Cold War & the Atomic Apocalypse
Jan 29, 2023
History of Abortion Legislation
Jan 21, 2023
American Colonies after The Seven Years War 1756-63
Jan 15, 2023
President Reagan's First Inaugural Address
Jan 08, 2023
Designing African American Monuments
Jan 01, 2023
1980s Fitness Industry & Culture
Dec 25, 2022
Christian Nightlife in the 1970s
Dec 18, 2022
World War I Correspondence
Dec 11, 2022
Slavery in the Northern Colonies
Dec 04, 2022
Thanksgiving: Seven Things You Didn't Know About Dulles Airport
Nov 27, 2022
Rise of Industry in the Gilded Age
Nov 20, 2022
Reconstruction & America's Story
Nov 13, 2022
When Polls Go Bad
Nov 06, 2022
Comics in Cold War America
Oct 30, 2022
Women's Political Power in Early America
Oct 23, 2022
American Churches During WWI
Oct 16, 2022
America and World War I
Oct 09, 2022
Ukraine, Russia and the U.S.
Oct 02, 2022
Electoral College
Sep 25, 2022
Rural America after the Civil War
Sep 18, 2022
Experience of Being Arrested in U.S. History
Sep 11, 2022
C-SPAN in the Classroom Trailer: Season 2
Sep 05, 2022
Presidential Recordings: Ep. 7 Intelligence Matters - Calls w/ the FBI & CIA Directors
Sep 04, 2022
World War II Amphibious Vehicles
Aug 28, 2022
U.S. Expansion and Hawaii
Aug 21, 2022
Watergate and the White House Tapes
Aug 14, 2022
Battling Nature in Korea and Vietnam
Aug 07, 2022
Alexander Hamilton and the Early Republic
Jul 31, 2022
National Intelligence Under President Kennedy
Jul 24, 2022
Economists Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman
Jul 17, 2022
Slave Labor in 19th Century Virginia
Jul 10, 2022
American Military in the Revolutionary War
Jul 03, 2022
Presidential Recordings Trailer: Season 2 President Richard Nixon
Jul 01, 2022
Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy & Civil Rights
Jun 26, 2022
Watergate 50 Years Later
Jun 19, 2022
The Weekly Podcast: Roe v. Wade: Justice Harry Blackmun's Legacy
Jun 12, 2022
The 1950s
Jun 05, 2022
Civil War Legacy in the South
May 29, 2022
State Constitutions
May 22, 2022
Native Americans & the Federal Government
May 15, 2022
Mexican-American War
May 08, 2022
Disability in Early America
May 01, 2022
Economics of the Industrial Revolution
Apr 24, 2022
New Deal Community of Norvelt
Apr 17, 2022
Theodore Roosevelt
Apr 10, 2022
End of the Cold War and Youth Culture
Apr 03, 2022
The Civil War in Virginia
Mar 27, 2022
Culture During the Great Depression
Mar 20, 2022
First Ladies in Their Own Words - Lady Bird Johnson
Mar 13, 2022
Cold War Educational Film
Mar 06, 2022
Neutrality and World War I America
Feb 27, 2022
1960s African American Voter Registration
Feb 20, 2022
Watergate 50 Years Later
Feb 13, 2022
Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"
Feb 06, 2022
Politics and Culture in Early America
Jan 30, 2022
Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis
Jan 23, 2022
Enlightenment Era in America
Jan 16, 2022
African American Women in Arts & Literature
Jan 08, 2022
1980s Fitness Industry & Culture
Jan 02, 2022
Food During the Great Depression
Dec 26, 2021
Civil War Naval Warfare
Dec 19, 2021
Conversation with Rep. James Clyburn D-SC
Dec 12, 2021
Baseball During the Depression
Dec 05, 2021
Pilgrims and History Textbooks
Nov 28, 2021
Anti-Semitism Between WWI & WWII
Nov 21, 2021
Trailer: Presidential Recordings: Season 1 President Lyndon Johnson
Nov 15, 2021
Designing African American Monuments
Nov 14, 2021
Irish Catholics and Tammany Hall
Nov 07, 2021
Presidential Speeches
Oct 31, 2021
American Military in the Revolutionary War
Oct 24, 2021
The Reconstruction Era
Oct 17, 2021
Women's Suffrage Movement
Oct 10, 2021
Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family and Life of a Klansman
Oct 03, 2021
1863 New York City Draft Riots
Sep 26, 2021
African American History and Museums
Sep 19, 2021
Remembering Victims of September 11, 2001
Sep 12, 2021
Conspiracy Culture in American History
Sep 05, 2021
U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II
Aug 29, 2021
Post-World War II U.S. Auto Industry
Aug 22, 2021
Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century
Aug 15, 2021
Colonial Myths and Monuments
Aug 08, 2021
Salem Witch Trials and the Great Awakening
Aug 01, 2021
Korean War and Civil-Military Relations
Jul 25, 2021
Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois
Jul 18, 2021
20th Century UFO Conspiracies
Jul 11, 2021
Women in the Early Republic
Jul 04, 2021
Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War
Jun 27, 2021
Early Atlantic Exploration
Jun 20, 2021
The Promise of Suburbia
Jun 13, 2021
Donald Rumsfeld on the War on Terror
Jun 06, 2021
Age & the American Revolution
May 30, 2021
Mary Church Terrell & the Black "Mammy" Statue
May 23, 2021
Native American & English Trade in Colonial Virginia
May 16, 2021
1970s American Car Culture & Film
May 09, 2021
1920s American South
May 02, 2021
1864 Presidential Election
Apr 25, 2021
John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy
Apr 18, 2021
Vietnam, Walter Cronkite, and Public Opinion
Apr 11, 2021
Notable Speakers of the House
Apr 04, 2021
Coroners in the 19th Century South
Mar 28, 2021
Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century
Mar 21, 2021
U.S. Containment Strategy After World War II
Mar 14, 2021
Women and the Civil War
Mar 07, 2021
Playwright August Wilson and "Fences"
Feb 28, 2021
National Intelligence Under President Kennedy
Feb 21, 2021
Lead-Up to the Battle of Gettysburg
Feb 14, 2021
World War II Leadership
Feb 07, 2021
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 31, 2021
History of State of the Union Addresses
Jan 24, 2021
First Ladies' Memoirs
Jan 17, 2021
Colonial Myths and Monuments
Jan 10, 2021
1783 Treaty of Paris
Jan 03, 2021
First and Second Amendment Court Cases
Dec 27, 2020
Post-Civil Rights Era Music
Dec 20, 2020
Antebellum Social Reformer Lucretia Mott
Dec 13, 2020
20th-Century Roadside Attractions
Dec 06, 2020
James Buchanan & William Rufus King Relationship
Nov 29, 2020
New Deal Politics and Public Opinion
Nov 22, 2020
Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Nov 15, 2020
Electoral College
Nov 08, 2020
Presidential Campaign Advertising
Nov 01, 2020
Presidential Debates
Oct 25, 2020
Presidents & Campaign Communications Since 1900
Oct 18, 2020
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Oct 11, 2020
Johnson and Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
Oct 04, 2020
Women in the Late-19th Century
Sep 27, 2020
U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II
Sep 20, 2020
Culture of the Antebellum Congress
Sep 13, 2020
Asian Immigration and Angel Island
Sep 06, 2020
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Aug 30, 2020
Female Slaves and the Law
Aug 23, 2020
Alcohol Use in the Early American Republic
Aug 16, 2020
Polio Epidemic in the United States
Aug 09, 2020
Culture and Society in the 1920s
Aug 02, 2020
Cultural Conservatism and the Religious Right
Jul 26, 2020
Socialism in Early 20th Century America
Jul 19, 2020
1950s Civil Rights Movement
Jul 11, 2020
Vietnam Anti-War Movement
Jul 05, 2020
The Slave Trade
Jun 28, 2020
Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
Jun 21, 2020
U.S. Military in the 1890s
Jun 14, 2020
1980s Fitness Industry and Culture
Jun 07, 2020
The Spanish-American War
May 31, 2020
Nixon, Ford & the Constitution
May 24, 2020
Free Speech Laws and Court Cases
May 17, 2020
Early Cold War U.S. Politics and Economics
May 10, 2020
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
May 03, 2020
1890s Growing American Internationalism
Apr 26, 2020
History of Abortion Legislation
Apr 17, 2020
Principles of the U.S. Constitution
Apr 12, 2020
African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom
Apr 05, 2020
1918 Influenza Pandemic and Public Information
Mar 29, 2020
White House Myths
Mar 22, 2020
Economic Policies of the Confederacy
Mar 15, 2020
Presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
Mar 08, 2020
The Civil War in the West
Mar 01, 2020
Expanding Rights in the 1960s and 1970s
Feb 23, 2020
Rural America after the Civil War
Feb 16, 2020
Power in Antebellum Slave Societies
Feb 09, 2020
Civil War Weaponry
Feb 02, 2020
Neutrality and World War I America
Jan 26, 2020
Cuban Missile Crisis
Jan 19, 2020
1960s African American Voter Registration
Jan 12, 2020
Lyndon Johnson & Escalation in Vietnam
Jan 04, 2020
Preamble of the Declaration of Independence
Dec 28, 2019
Women & Farm Work in the 20th Century
Dec 21, 2019
Slaves Suing for Their Freedom
Dec 14, 2019
Public Opinion, Radio & Entry into World War II
Dec 07, 2019
U.S. Expansion & Hawaii
Nov 30, 2019
Colonial Diplomacy & the Iroquois Confederacy
Nov 24, 2019
Native Americans & Colonial-Era Power Struggles
Oct 09, 2019
Nixon, Kissinger and U.S. Withdrawal From Vietnam
Oct 05, 2019
1970s & '80s Deindustrialization of the U.S.
Sep 28, 2019
Playwright August Wilson & "Fences"
Sep 21, 2019
Anti-Semitism & Holocaust Denial
Sep 14, 2019
Environmental Impact of California Gold Rush
Sep 07, 2019
Jean Harris & Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder Trial
Aug 30, 2019
Marijuana Regulation in U.S. History
Aug 29, 2019
George Washington's Character
Aug 27, 2019
Abraham Lincoln and Native Americans
Aug 26, 2019
Gender & 1960s Activism
Aug 10, 2019
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and the Constitution
Aug 03, 2019
The 1920s
Jul 27, 2019
Ronald Walters' Civil Rights Career
Jul 13, 2019
Western Lands Before & After American Revolution
Jul 06, 2019
The Continental Army
Jun 29, 2019
Origins of World War II in Europe
Jun 22, 2019
Malcolm X's Views on Africa
Jun 15, 2019
Early English Missions in Colonial America
Jun 08, 2019
End of Life Care and Death Since the 1800s
Jun 01, 2019
The Progressive Era
May 25, 2019
California Before the Mexican-American War
May 18, 2019
World War II Amphibious Vehicles
May 11, 2019
American Military in the Revolutionary War
May 04, 2019
Yellow Journalism & the Spanish-American War
Apr 27, 2019
Late-20th Century Transformation of Work
Apr 20, 2019
Legal History of Abortion in the U.S.
Apr 13, 2019
Vietnam War Lessons Learned
Mar 30, 2019
1970s Culture & Economics
Mar 16, 2019
Early 1800s Abolition & Pro-Slavery Movements
Mar 09, 2019
1968 Election & Richard Nixon's First Term
Mar 02, 2019
U.S. & Soviet Relations Under President Reagan
Feb 23, 2019
Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
Feb 16, 2019
19th-Century Politics & Society
Feb 09, 2019
History of State of the Union Addresses
Feb 03, 2019
Artist James Hope & the 1862 Battle of Antietam
Feb 02, 2019
Sit-ins and the Civil Rights Movement
Jan 19, 2019
The American Revolution, 1775-76
Jan 12, 2019
Women During World War II
Jan 05, 2019
Abraham Lincoln & the 1860 Election
Dec 29, 2018
Dwight Eisenhower and 1950s Political Advertising
Dec 15, 2018
Experience of Being Arrested in U.S. History
Dec 01, 2018
Post-Vietnam War Refugees
Aug 25, 2018
African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Aug 24, 2018
Environmental Movement & Litigation
Aug 18, 2018
Public Lands & the Law in the Early Republic
Jun 16, 2018
Nuclear Weapons Testing & the Environment
Apr 21, 2018
Colonial America Before the Revolution
Jan 13, 2018
Federal Surveillance & Civil Rights
Dec 23, 2017
California Native Americans and Early 1800s Capitalism
Oct 14, 2017
1950s & 60s Counterculture
Jul 08, 2017
Native American History
Aug 31, 2016
Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison
Jul 24, 2016
Incarceration in the Late 20th Century
Apr 30, 2016
Drug Addiction in 19th Century America
Dec 12, 2015
Civil Rights Cold Cases
Nov 21, 2015
Feminism and 1960-1970s Popular Music
Aug 28, 2014