Lectures in History

American University professor Johanna Mendelson Forman teaches a class on food and how disruptions in agricultural production and supply -- whether by natural or man-man causes -- can be a catalyst to war.

Indiana University Bloomington professor Stephen Andrews teaches a class about conspiracy culture in American history.

Baruch College professors Vincent DiGirolamo & Elizabeth Wollman teach a class about New York City and Broadway in the 1960s.

Iowa State University professor Thomas Leslie talks about the changes in late 19th century architecture design and technology that allowed buildings to be built taller.

Texas A&M University professor Lorien Foote teaches a class about popular culture during the 1840s.

DePaul University professor Mark Pohlad teaches a class on representations of President Abraham Lincoln in art and photographs.

Messiah College professor John Fea teaches a class about the people and ideas that shaped the Pennsylvania Constitution, written in 1776.

Indiana University Bloomington professor Stephen Andrews teaches a class about conspiracy culture in American history.

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.

Georgetown University professor Brian Taylor teaches a class on the military strategy and political policy goals of emancipation during the Civil War.

Villanova University professor Judith Giesberg and her class discuss the ways northern middle-class women volunteered during the Civil War. They focus on Louisa May Alcott's time as Civil War nurse chronicled in her book, [Hospital Sketches].

University of West Georgia professor Keith Bohannon teaches a class about what's known as the "Lost Cause" myth, the term given to the post-Civil War arguments made by former Confederates seeking to justify their split from the Union and their defeat

Appalachian State University professor Judkin Browning teaches a class on the Civil War's 1862 Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days' battles.

Sam Houston State University professor Brian Matthew Jordan taught a class about the Civil War's Overland Campaign, which took place in Virginia in 1864 and pitted Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant against the Confederates under Robert E. Lee.

University of New Hampshire professor William Harris teaches a class about Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War Battle of Antietam, and the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.