Lectures in History
Summary: Join students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9-11.
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Podcasts:
University of Kansas professor Adrian Lewis teaches a class about Omaha Beach and the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, France, during World War II.
Western University in Ontario professors Shauna Devine and Neville Thompson teach a class about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's time in office.
Georgetown University professor Brian Taylor teaches a class on the military strategy and political policy goals of emancipation during the Civil War.
University of Washington professor Margaret O'Mara teaches a class about the 1968 presidential election and the events that affected the outcome.
Messiah College professor John Fea teaches a class about the people and ideas that shaped the Pennsylvania Constitution, written in 1776.
Towson University professor Akim Reinhardt teaches a class about Victorian Era culture in the United States in the last half of the 19th century.
Gettysburg College professor Allen Guelzo teaches a class on Abraham Lincoln, his views on slavery, and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision.
Providence College professor Jeffrey Johnson teaches a class about the 1916 bombing of a parade in San Francisco that killed 10 and wounded 40. The attack remains the worst act of terrorism in San Francisco history.
University of Mary Washington professor Krystyn Moon teaches a class about anti-immigration laws in the 19th century, focusing on Chinese immigrants.
University of Chicago professor Jonathan Levy teaches a class on the so-called "Great Recession" of 2007 to 2009, the worst financial crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Shepherd University professor Benjamin Bankhurst teaches a class on Appalachia in the American imagination.
Texas Christian University professor Max Krochmal teaches a class on changes to labor organizing in the post-World War II era.
U.S Air Force Academy professor Charles Dusch teaches a class on the political and military situation in both the North and the South during the fall of 1864.
Hampden-Sydney College professor John Coombs teaches a class on the 17th century relationship between the colonial Chesapeake area and the British Empire.
Professor Dale Green talks about the institutional history and alumni of Morgan State University, an Historically Black University in Baltimore.
