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Lectures in History — 413 episodes

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U.S. Court System in Revolutionary War

2

Revolutionary War Roots of the Civil War

3

When the Sea Came Alive - An Oral History Of D-Day

4

The Serial Killer H.H. Holmes

5

FEED DROP A250: Abraham Lincoln and Conditions Leading to the Civil War

6

FEED DROP: 2026 Commencement Speeches: Ron DeSantis, Muriel Bowser, Scott Bessent & James Patterson

7

FEED DROP: 2026 Commencement Speeches: Hilary Duff, Gretchen Whitmer, Hugh Jackman, Nancy Pelosi & Jalen Rose

8

The History of the Oil Business

9

Red Dead's History - A Video Game, An Obsession, and America's Violent Past

10

FEED DROP: BN+ - Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"

11

FEED DROP: America's Book Club with Beverly Gage

12

"Whiteness" & U.S. Citizenship

13

Allen Guelzo on Abraham Lincoln

14

FEED DROP BN+: Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel

15

2002 George W. Bush Speech Making the Case for Military Action in Iraq

16

President Jimmy Carter's Impact On the End of the Cold War

17

FEED DROP: BN+ David Sirota "Master Plan"

18

Hawaiian History and Culture

19

Supreme Court Cases and Privacy

20

The Spanish-American War

21

Reaganomics

22

Marion Orr "House of Diggs"

23

The History of the Space Program

24

Williamsburg Revolutionary War Encampment

25

How Martin Luther King Jr. Used Political Strategy

26

Blake Gilpin on Reconstruction-Era Supreme Court Cases That Led to Jim Crow Segregation

27

Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War

28

FEED DROP: America 250 Battle of Bunker Hill Commemoration

29

The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy

30

Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production

31

How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WWII Mobilization

32

FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

33

Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life

34

The 1967 Six-Day War and America’s Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process

35

FEED DROP: ABC David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hidden History

36

The Mexican-American War: Causes, Consequences, and Legacy

37

How Constitutional Order Emerged From Crisis

38

Gettysburg College’s Timothy Shannon on the Mystery of Roanoke

39

The 1876 Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

40

World War II History: Vichy France Collaboration and the U.S.-UK Alliance

41

Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War

42

Black Education in Colonial America: The Story of the Williamsburg Bray School

43

Lectures in History: 1992 Republican National Convention

44

FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

45

James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution

46

Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution

47

Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Benedict Arnold

48

Garrett Graff, "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky"

49

George Washington's Character

50

Colonial Tensions Pre-Revolution

51

1607 Jamestown Settlement

52

Army Explorers of the West

53

Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War

54

Gilded Age Bohemians

55

World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii

56

America's National Pastime

57

Christian Nightlife in the 1970s

58

Islam & Judaism in American History

59

Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War

60

Ronald Reagan & the 1980s Conservative Resurgence

61

Native Americans & the American Revolution

62

FEED DROP: BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"

63

Winston Churchill, the Special Relationship and the Cold War

64

Cold War Refugees & the 1980 Refugee Act

65

World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii

66

"The Education of Henry Adams" (1918)

67

19th Century American Landscape Painting

68

Development of the Atomic Bomb

69

FEED DROP: Q&A: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

70

America & the Northern Ireland Peace Process

71

Prison Gangs

72

Henry Christophe & the 1791 Haitian Revolution

73

The U.S. Border Patrol

74

World War I Propaganda

75

1607 Jamestown Settlement

76

History of Latinos in the South

77

World War I Propaganda

78

American Civil Religion During the Cold War

79

John Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address

80

SHORT SERIES:Women's Sports and Title IX

81

SHORT SERIES: Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century

82

SHORT SERIES: Women's Political Power in Early America

83

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

84

SHORT SERIES: Baseball in the Gilded Age

85

SHORT SERIES: Baseball During the Depression

86

1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 2

87

1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 1

88

FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

89

FEED DROP: Booknotes+ Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"

90

FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"

91

The Great Depression

92

Road to the 1787 Constitutional Convention

93

Ryan White & the AIDS Epidemic

94

America's National Pastime

95

Southeast American Indians During the 18th Century

96

Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War

97

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"

98

Gilded Age Bohemians

99

The American Presidency and Foreign Policy

100

Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement

101

Rise of Industry in the Gilded age

102

When Polls Go Bad

103

Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote

104

Nixon, Ford & the Constitution

105

American Churches During World War 1

106

The Red Scare 1940s-1950s

107

Appalachia in the American Imagination

108

Eisenhower & 1950s Political Advertising

109

Civil War Weaponry

110

Army Explorers of the West

111

History of Abortion

112

20th Century Fundamentalism & Pentecostalism

113

D-Day & Omaha Beach

114

C.S. Lewis

115

WWII Battle of the Atlantic

116

The Road to Brown v. Board of Education

117

The West Virginia Mine Wars

118

Confederate Monuments & Labor Integration in New Orleans

119

Reagan's 1982 Address to Parliament

120

HBCUs & Student Activism in North Carolina

121

Women & Employment Laws in the Early 20th Century

122

Mamie Till-Mobley & Remembering Emmett Till

123

Richard Nixon & the 1968 Election

124

The Development of the Early Republic

125

Abortion and Reproductive Rights

126

1970s Labor & Working Class

127

Army Explorers of the West

128

History of Emergency Medical Services

129

1909 Missoula Labor & Free Speech Fight

130

The Story of Public Health

131

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial Part 2

132

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial Part 1

133

Presidential Scandals

134

History of Artificial Intelligence

135

Cults & American Culture

136

Slavery in the Northern Colonies

137

BONUS EPISODE: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen

138

Legacy of President Jimmy Carter

139

The Cold War & Global Literature

140

Soldier, Diplomat & Civil Rights Leader Charles Young

141

Television, Internet & White House Communications

142

FEED DROP: JFK 60 Years Later Ep. 1 & Ep. 2

143

World War II Battle of the Atlantic

144

FEED DROP: Booknotes+ - Lindsay Chervinsky, "The Cabinet"

145

Abraham Lincoln & Emancipation

146

Furniture Making in Sumter, S.C.

147

The Church in Colonial California

148

Colonial Tensions Before The Revolution

149

Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote Address

150

C.S. Lewis & Natural Law

151

BONUS EPISODE: Q&A with AHTV's & BookTV's John McArdle

152

The Great Society & the Welfare State

153

The Oregon Country

154

Worth Bagley & Civil War Reconciliation

155

Ludlow Coal Miners' Strike and Massacre

156

Coroners in the 19th Century South

157

U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II

158

Q&A: Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848

159

Lewis and Clark Expedition

160

Playwright August Wilson and Fences

161

BONUS EPISODE: The Atomic Bomb

162

1970s American Car Culture and Film

163

White House Myths

164

New York City and Broadway in the 1960s

165

Lead-Up to the Battle of Gettysburg

166

Jean Harris & Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder Trial

167

Landscape Preservation and National Parks

168

The Underground Railroad

169

The Ohio Dynasty of Presidents

170

Colonial Myths and Monuments

171

The 1990s

172

Evolution of Job Skills & Rise of Robots

173

Native American Art & Museum Collections

174

Vietnam War's "Operation Rolling Thunder"

175

The Outdoor History of Columbia, South Carolina

176

The 1960s Underground Press

177

Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War

178

Puritanism & the Enlightenment in Colonial America

179

Legacy of President Jimmy Carter

180

West Virginia Statehood

181

The 'Red Scare' (1940s-50s)

182

Gays & Lesbians in Colonial America

183

Black Women During Reconstruction

184

Immigration & Working Class Life in the American Industrial Age

185

The Clinton Presidency

186

History of State of the Union Addresses

187

The Cold War & the Atomic Apocalypse

188

History of Abortion Legislation

189

American Colonies after The Seven Years War 1756-63

190

President Reagan's First Inaugural Address

191

Designing African American Monuments

192

1980s Fitness Industry & Culture

193

Christian Nightlife in the 1970s

194

World War I Correspondence

195

Slavery in the Northern Colonies

196

Thanksgiving: Seven Things You Didn't Know About Dulles Airport

197

Rise of Industry in the Gilded Age

198

Reconstruction & America's Story

199

When Polls Go Bad

200

Comics in Cold War America

201

Women's Political Power in Early America

202

American Churches During WWI

203

America and World War I

204

Ukraine, Russia and the U.S.

205

Electoral College

206

Rural America after the Civil War

207

Experience of Being Arrested in U.S. History

208

C-SPAN in the Classroom Trailer: Season 2

209

Presidential Recordings: Ep. 7 Intelligence Matters - Calls w/ the FBI & CIA Directors

210

World War II Amphibious Vehicles

211

U.S. Expansion and Hawaii

212

Watergate and the White House Tapes

213

Battling Nature in Korea and Vietnam

214

Alexander Hamilton and the Early Republic

215

National Intelligence Under President Kennedy

216

Economists Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman

217

Slave Labor in 19th Century Virginia

218

American Military in the Revolutionary War

219

Presidential Recordings Trailer: Season 2 President Richard Nixon

220

Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy & Civil Rights

221

Watergate 50 Years Later

222

The Weekly Podcast: Roe v. Wade: Justice Harry Blackmun's Legacy

223

The 1950s

224

Civil War Legacy in the South

225

State Constitutions

226

Native Americans & the Federal Government

227

Mexican-American War

228

Disability in Early America

229

Economics of the Industrial Revolution

230

New Deal Community of Norvelt

231

Theodore Roosevelt

232

End of the Cold War and Youth Culture

233

The Civil War in Virginia

234

Culture During the Great Depression

235

First Ladies in Their Own Words - Lady Bird Johnson

236

Cold War Educational Film

237

Neutrality and World War I America

238

1960s African American Voter Registration

239

Watergate 50 Years Later

240

Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"

241

Politics and Culture in Early America

242

Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis

243

Enlightenment Era in America

244

African American Women in Arts & Literature

245

1980s Fitness Industry & Culture

246

Food During the Great Depression

247

Civil War Naval Warfare

248

Conversation with Rep. James Clyburn D-SC

249

Baseball During the Depression

250

Pilgrims and History Textbooks

251

Anti-Semitism Between WWI & WWII

252

Trailer: Presidential Recordings: Season 1 President Lyndon Johnson

253

Designing African American Monuments

254

Irish Catholics and Tammany Hall

255

Presidential Speeches

256

American Military in the Revolutionary War

257

The Reconstruction Era

258

Women's Suffrage Movement

259

Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family and Life of a Klansman

260

1863 New York City Draft Riots

261

African American History and Museums

262

Remembering Victims of September 11, 2001

263

Conspiracy Culture in American History

264

U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II

265

Post-World War II U.S. Auto Industry

266

Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century

267

Colonial Myths and Monuments

268

Salem Witch Trials and the Great Awakening

269

Korean War and Civil-Military Relations

270

Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois

271

20th Century UFO Conspiracies

272

Women in the Early Republic

273

Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War

274

Early Atlantic Exploration

275

The Promise of Suburbia

276

Donald Rumsfeld on the War on Terror

277

Age & the American Revolution

278

Mary Church Terrell & the Black "Mammy" Statue

279

Native American & English Trade in Colonial Virginia

280

1970s American Car Culture & Film

281

1920s American South

282

1864 Presidential Election

283

John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy

284

Vietnam, Walter Cronkite, and Public Opinion

285

Notable Speakers of the House

286

Coroners in the 19th Century South

287

Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century

288

U.S. Containment Strategy After World War II

289

Women and the Civil War

290

Playwright August Wilson and "Fences"

291

National Intelligence Under President Kennedy

292

Lead-Up to the Battle of Gettysburg

293

World War II Leadership

294

Martin Luther King, Jr.

295

History of State of the Union Addresses

296

First Ladies' Memoirs

297

Colonial Myths and Monuments

298

1783 Treaty of Paris

299

First and Second Amendment Court Cases

300

Post-Civil Rights Era Music

301

Antebellum Social Reformer Lucretia Mott

302

20th-Century Roadside Attractions

303

James Buchanan & William Rufus King Relationship

304

New Deal Politics and Public Opinion

305

Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy

306

Electoral College

307

Presidential Campaign Advertising

308

Presidential Debates

309

Presidents & Campaign Communications Since 1900

310

Lewis and Clark Expedition

311

Johnson and Nixon Supreme Court Nominations

312

Women in the Late-19th Century

313

U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II

314

Culture of the Antebellum Congress

315

Asian Immigration and Angel Island

316

Constitutional Convention of 1787

317

Female Slaves and the Law

318

Alcohol Use in the Early American Republic

319

Polio Epidemic in the United States

320

Culture and Society in the 1920s

321

Cultural Conservatism and the Religious Right

322

Socialism in Early 20th Century America

323

1950s Civil Rights Movement

324

Vietnam Anti-War Movement

325

The Slave Trade

326

Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War

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327

U.S. Military in the 1890s

328

1980s Fitness Industry and Culture

329

The Spanish-American War

330

Nixon, Ford & the Constitution

331

Free Speech Laws and Court Cases

332

Early Cold War U.S. Politics and Economics

333

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

334

1890s Growing American Internationalism

335

History of Abortion Legislation

336

Principles of the U.S. Constitution

337

African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom

338

1918 Influenza Pandemic and Public Information

339

White House Myths

340

Economic Policies of the Confederacy

341

Presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush

342

The Civil War in the West

343

Expanding Rights in the 1960s and 1970s

344

Rural America after the Civil War

345

Power in Antebellum Slave Societies

346

Civil War Weaponry

347

Neutrality and World War I America

348

Cuban Missile Crisis

349

1960s African American Voter Registration

350

Lyndon Johnson & Escalation in Vietnam

351

Preamble of the Declaration of Independence

352

Women & Farm Work in the 20th Century

353

Slaves Suing for Their Freedom

354

Public Opinion, Radio & Entry into World War II

355

U.S. Expansion & Hawaii

356

Colonial Diplomacy & the Iroquois Confederacy

357

Native Americans & Colonial-Era Power Struggles

358

Nixon, Kissinger and U.S. Withdrawal From Vietnam

359

1970s & '80s Deindustrialization of the U.S.

360

Playwright August Wilson & "Fences"

361

Anti-Semitism & Holocaust Denial

362

Environmental Impact of California Gold Rush

363

Jean Harris & Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder Trial

364

Marijuana Regulation in U.S. History

365

George Washington's Character

366

Abraham Lincoln and Native Americans

367

Gender & 1960s Activism

368

Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and the Constitution

369

The 1920s

370

Ronald Walters' Civil Rights Career

371

Western Lands Before & After American Revolution

372

The Continental Army

373

Origins of World War II in Europe

374

Malcolm X's Views on Africa

375

Early English Missions in Colonial America

376

End of Life Care and Death Since the 1800s

377

The Progressive Era

378

California Before the Mexican-American War

379

World War II Amphibious Vehicles

380

American Military in the Revolutionary War

381

Yellow Journalism & the Spanish-American War

382

Late-20th Century Transformation of Work

383

Legal History of Abortion in the U.S.

384

Vietnam War Lessons Learned

385

1970s Culture & Economics

386

Early 1800s Abolition & Pro-Slavery Movements

387

1968 Election & Richard Nixon's First Term

388

U.S. & Soviet Relations Under President Reagan

389

Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations

390

19th-Century Politics & Society

391

History of State of the Union Addresses

392

Artist James Hope & the 1862 Battle of Antietam

393

Sit-ins and the Civil Rights Movement

394

The American Revolution, 1775-76

395

Women During World War II

396

Abraham Lincoln & the 1860 Election

397

Dwight Eisenhower and 1950s Political Advertising

398

Experience of Being Arrested in U.S. History

399

Post-Vietnam War Refugees

400

African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement

401

Environmental Movement & Litigation

402

Public Lands & the Law in the Early Republic

403

Nuclear Weapons Testing & the Environment

404

Colonial America Before the Revolution

405

Federal Surveillance & Civil Rights

406

California Native Americans and Early 1800s Capitalism

407

1950s & 60s Counterculture

408

Native American History

409

Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison

410

Incarceration in the Late 20th Century

411

Drug Addiction in 19th Century America

412

Civil Rights Cold Cases

413

Feminism and 1960-1970s Popular Music

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