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Lectures in History — 421 episodes
The American Revolution Era and the Rest of the World
Why Did America Declare Independence?
Was America Founded as a Secular or Christian Nation?
Appalachia's Role in America's Founding
Why Did America Declare Independence?
International Context of the American Revolution
Revolutionary War Leadership
Religion & The American Revolution
U.S. Court System in Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War Roots of the Civil War
When the Sea Came Alive - An Oral History Of D-Day
The Serial Killer H.H. Holmes
FEED DROP A250: Abraham Lincoln and Conditions Leading to the Civil War
FEED DROP: 2026 Commencement Speeches: Ron DeSantis, Muriel Bowser, Scott Bessent & James Patterson
FEED DROP: 2026 Commencement Speeches: Hilary Duff, Gretchen Whitmer, Hugh Jackman, Nancy Pelosi & Jalen Rose
The History of the Oil Business
Red Dead's History - A Video Game, An Obsession, and America's Violent Past
FEED DROP: BN+ - Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"
FEED DROP: America's Book Club with Beverly Gage
"Whiteness" & U.S. Citizenship
Allen Guelzo on Abraham Lincoln
FEED DROP BN+: Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel
2002 George W. Bush Speech Making the Case for Military Action in Iraq
President Jimmy Carter's Impact On the End of the Cold War
FEED DROP: BN+ David Sirota "Master Plan"
Hawaiian History and Culture
Supreme Court Cases and Privacy
The Spanish-American War
Reaganomics
Marion Orr "House of Diggs"
The History of the Space Program
Williamsburg Revolutionary War Encampment
How Martin Luther King Jr. Used Political Strategy
Blake Gilpin on Reconstruction-Era Supreme Court Cases That Led to Jim Crow Segregation
Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War
FEED DROP: America 250 Battle of Bunker Hill Commemoration
The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy
Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production
How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WWII Mobilization
FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts
Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life
The 1967 Six-Day War and America’s Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
FEED DROP: ABC David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hidden History
The Mexican-American War: Causes, Consequences, and Legacy
How Constitutional Order Emerged From Crisis
Gettysburg College’s Timothy Shannon on the Mystery of Roanoke
The 1876 Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
World War II History: Vichy France Collaboration and the U.S.-UK Alliance
Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War
Black Education in Colonial America: The Story of the Williamsburg Bray School
Lectures in History: 1992 Republican National Convention
FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"
James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution
Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution
Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Benedict Arnold
Garrett Graff, "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky"
George Washington's Character
Colonial Tensions Pre-Revolution
1607 Jamestown Settlement
Army Explorers of the West
Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War
Gilded Age Bohemians
World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii
America's National Pastime
Christian Nightlife in the 1970s
Islam & Judaism in American History
Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War
Ronald Reagan & the 1980s Conservative Resurgence
Native Americans & the American Revolution
FEED DROP: BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"
Winston Churchill, the Special Relationship and the Cold War
Cold War Refugees & the 1980 Refugee Act
World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii
"The Education of Henry Adams" (1918)
19th Century American Landscape Painting
Development of the Atomic Bomb
FEED DROP: Q&A: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"
America & the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Prison Gangs
Henry Christophe & the 1791 Haitian Revolution
The U.S. Border Patrol
World War I Propaganda
1607 Jamestown Settlement
History of Latinos in the South
World War I Propaganda
American Civil Religion During the Cold War
John Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address
SHORT SERIES:Women's Sports and Title IX
SHORT SERIES: Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century
SHORT SERIES: Women's Political Power in Early America
SHORT SERIES: Satchel Paige, Negro Leagues Baseball, and Civil Rights
SHORT SERIES: Baseball in the Gilded Age
SHORT SERIES: Baseball During the Depression
1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 2
1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 1
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"
FEED DROP: Booknotes+ Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"
The Great Depression
Road to the 1787 Constitutional Convention
Ryan White & the AIDS Epidemic
America's National Pastime
Southeast American Indians During the 18th Century
Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
Gilded Age Bohemians
The American Presidency and Foreign Policy
Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement
Rise of Industry in the Gilded age
When Polls Go Bad
Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote
Nixon, Ford & the Constitution
American Churches During World War 1
The Red Scare 1940s-1950s
Appalachia in the American Imagination
Eisenhower & 1950s Political Advertising
Civil War Weaponry
Army Explorers of the West
History of Abortion
20th Century Fundamentalism & Pentecostalism
D-Day & Omaha Beach
C.S. Lewis
WWII Battle of the Atlantic
The Road to Brown v. Board of Education
The West Virginia Mine Wars
Confederate Monuments & Labor Integration in New Orleans
Reagan's 1982 Address to Parliament
HBCUs & Student Activism in North Carolina
Women & Employment Laws in the Early 20th Century
Mamie Till-Mobley & Remembering Emmett Till
Richard Nixon & the 1968 Election
The Development of the Early Republic
Abortion and Reproductive Rights
1970s Labor & Working Class
Army Explorers of the West
History of Emergency Medical Services
1909 Missoula Labor & Free Speech Fight
The Story of Public Health
1925 Scopes Monkey Trial Part 2
1925 Scopes Monkey Trial Part 1
Presidential Scandals
History of Artificial Intelligence
Cults & American Culture
Slavery in the Northern Colonies
BONUS EPISODE: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen
Legacy of President Jimmy Carter
The Cold War & Global Literature
Soldier, Diplomat & Civil Rights Leader Charles Young
Television, Internet & White House Communications
FEED DROP: JFK 60 Years Later Ep. 1 & Ep. 2
World War II Battle of the Atlantic
FEED DROP: Booknotes+ - Lindsay Chervinsky, "The Cabinet"
Abraham Lincoln & Emancipation
Furniture Making in Sumter, S.C.
The Church in Colonial California
Colonial Tensions Before The Revolution
Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote Address
C.S. Lewis & Natural Law
BONUS EPISODE: Q&A with AHTV's & BookTV's John McArdle
The Great Society & the Welfare State
The Oregon Country
Worth Bagley & Civil War Reconciliation
Ludlow Coal Miners' Strike and Massacre
Coroners in the 19th Century South
U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II
Q&A: Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Playwright August Wilson and Fences
BONUS EPISODE: The Atomic Bomb
1970s American Car Culture and Film
White House Myths
New York City and Broadway in the 1960s
Lead-Up to the Battle of Gettysburg
Jean Harris & Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder Trial
Landscape Preservation and National Parks
The Underground Railroad
The Ohio Dynasty of Presidents
Colonial Myths and Monuments
The 1990s
Evolution of Job Skills & Rise of Robots
Native American Art & Museum Collections
Vietnam War's "Operation Rolling Thunder"
The Outdoor History of Columbia, South Carolina
The 1960s Underground Press
Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War
Puritanism & the Enlightenment in Colonial America
Legacy of President Jimmy Carter
West Virginia Statehood
The 'Red Scare' (1940s-50s)
Gays & Lesbians in Colonial America
Black Women During Reconstruction
Immigration & Working Class Life in the American Industrial Age
The Clinton Presidency
History of State of the Union Addresses
The Cold War & the Atomic Apocalypse
History of Abortion Legislation
American Colonies after The Seven Years War 1756-63
President Reagan's First Inaugural Address
Designing African American Monuments
1980s Fitness Industry & Culture
Christian Nightlife in the 1970s
World War I Correspondence
Slavery in the Northern Colonies
Thanksgiving: Seven Things You Didn't Know About Dulles Airport
Rise of Industry in the Gilded Age
Reconstruction & America's Story
When Polls Go Bad
Comics in Cold War America
Women's Political Power in Early America
American Churches During WWI
America and World War I
Ukraine, Russia and the U.S.
Electoral College
Rural America after the Civil War
Experience of Being Arrested in U.S. History
C-SPAN in the Classroom Trailer: Season 2
Presidential Recordings: Ep. 7 Intelligence Matters - Calls w/ the FBI & CIA Directors
World War II Amphibious Vehicles
U.S. Expansion and Hawaii
Watergate and the White House Tapes
Battling Nature in Korea and Vietnam
Alexander Hamilton and the Early Republic
National Intelligence Under President Kennedy
Economists Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman
Slave Labor in 19th Century Virginia
American Military in the Revolutionary War
Presidential Recordings Trailer: Season 2 President Richard Nixon
Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy & Civil Rights
Watergate 50 Years Later
The Weekly Podcast: Roe v. Wade: Justice Harry Blackmun's Legacy
The 1950s
Civil War Legacy in the South
State Constitutions
Native Americans & the Federal Government
Mexican-American War
Disability in Early America
Economics of the Industrial Revolution
New Deal Community of Norvelt
Theodore Roosevelt
End of the Cold War and Youth Culture
The Civil War in Virginia
Culture During the Great Depression
First Ladies in Their Own Words - Lady Bird Johnson
Cold War Educational Film
Neutrality and World War I America
1960s African American Voter Registration
Watergate 50 Years Later
Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"
Politics and Culture in Early America
Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis
Enlightenment Era in America
African American Women in Arts & Literature
1980s Fitness Industry & Culture
Food During the Great Depression
Civil War Naval Warfare
Conversation with Rep. James Clyburn D-SC
Baseball During the Depression
Pilgrims and History Textbooks
Anti-Semitism Between WWI & WWII
Trailer: Presidential Recordings: Season 1 President Lyndon Johnson
Designing African American Monuments
Irish Catholics and Tammany Hall
Presidential Speeches
American Military in the Revolutionary War
The Reconstruction Era
Women's Suffrage Movement
Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family and Life of a Klansman
1863 New York City Draft Riots
African American History and Museums
Remembering Victims of September 11, 2001
Conspiracy Culture in American History
U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II
Post-World War II U.S. Auto Industry
Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century
Colonial Myths and Monuments
Salem Witch Trials and the Great Awakening
Korean War and Civil-Military Relations
Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois
20th Century UFO Conspiracies
Women in the Early Republic
Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War
Early Atlantic Exploration
The Promise of Suburbia
Donald Rumsfeld on the War on Terror
Age & the American Revolution
Mary Church Terrell & the Black "Mammy" Statue
Native American & English Trade in Colonial Virginia
1970s American Car Culture & Film
1920s American South
1864 Presidential Election
John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy
Vietnam, Walter Cronkite, and Public Opinion
Notable Speakers of the House
Coroners in the 19th Century South
Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century
U.S. Containment Strategy After World War II
Women and the Civil War
Playwright August Wilson and "Fences"
National Intelligence Under President Kennedy
Lead-Up to the Battle of Gettysburg
World War II Leadership
Martin Luther King, Jr.
History of State of the Union Addresses
First Ladies' Memoirs
Colonial Myths and Monuments
1783 Treaty of Paris
First and Second Amendment Court Cases
Post-Civil Rights Era Music
Antebellum Social Reformer Lucretia Mott
20th-Century Roadside Attractions
James Buchanan & William Rufus King Relationship
New Deal Politics and Public Opinion
Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Electoral College
Presidential Campaign Advertising
Presidential Debates
Presidents & Campaign Communications Since 1900
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Johnson and Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
Women in the Late-19th Century
U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II
Culture of the Antebellum Congress
Asian Immigration and Angel Island
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Female Slaves and the Law
Alcohol Use in the Early American Republic
Polio Epidemic in the United States
Culture and Society in the 1920s
Cultural Conservatism and the Religious Right
Socialism in Early 20th Century America
1950s Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam Anti-War Movement
The Slave Trade
Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
EU.S. Military in the 1890s
1980s Fitness Industry and Culture
The Spanish-American War
Nixon, Ford & the Constitution
Free Speech Laws and Court Cases
Early Cold War U.S. Politics and Economics
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1890s Growing American Internationalism
History of Abortion Legislation
Principles of the U.S. Constitution
African Americans, Emancipation, and Defining Freedom
1918 Influenza Pandemic and Public Information
White House Myths
Economic Policies of the Confederacy
Presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
The Civil War in the West
Expanding Rights in the 1960s and 1970s
Rural America after the Civil War
Power in Antebellum Slave Societies
Civil War Weaponry
Neutrality and World War I America
Cuban Missile Crisis
1960s African American Voter Registration
Lyndon Johnson & Escalation in Vietnam
Preamble of the Declaration of Independence
Women & Farm Work in the 20th Century
Slaves Suing for Their Freedom
Public Opinion, Radio & Entry into World War II
U.S. Expansion & Hawaii
Colonial Diplomacy & the Iroquois Confederacy
Native Americans & Colonial-Era Power Struggles
Nixon, Kissinger and U.S. Withdrawal From Vietnam
1970s & '80s Deindustrialization of the U.S.
Playwright August Wilson & "Fences"
Anti-Semitism & Holocaust Denial
Environmental Impact of California Gold Rush
Jean Harris & Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder Trial
Marijuana Regulation in U.S. History
George Washington's Character
Abraham Lincoln and Native Americans
Gender & 1960s Activism
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and the Constitution
The 1920s
Ronald Walters' Civil Rights Career
Western Lands Before & After American Revolution
The Continental Army
Origins of World War II in Europe
Malcolm X's Views on Africa
Early English Missions in Colonial America
End of Life Care and Death Since the 1800s
The Progressive Era
California Before the Mexican-American War
World War II Amphibious Vehicles
American Military in the Revolutionary War
Yellow Journalism & the Spanish-American War
Late-20th Century Transformation of Work
Legal History of Abortion in the U.S.
Vietnam War Lessons Learned
1970s Culture & Economics
Early 1800s Abolition & Pro-Slavery Movements
1968 Election & Richard Nixon's First Term
U.S. & Soviet Relations Under President Reagan
Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
19th-Century Politics & Society
History of State of the Union Addresses
Artist James Hope & the 1862 Battle of Antietam
Sit-ins and the Civil Rights Movement
The American Revolution, 1775-76
Women During World War II
Abraham Lincoln & the 1860 Election
Dwight Eisenhower and 1950s Political Advertising
Experience of Being Arrested in U.S. History
Post-Vietnam War Refugees
African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Environmental Movement & Litigation
Public Lands & the Law in the Early Republic
Nuclear Weapons Testing & the Environment
Colonial America Before the Revolution
Federal Surveillance & Civil Rights
California Native Americans and Early 1800s Capitalism
1950s & 60s Counterculture
Native American History
Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison
Incarceration in the Late 20th Century
Drug Addiction in 19th Century America
Civil Rights Cold Cases
Feminism and 1960-1970s Popular Music
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