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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...
This week, Lectures in History is taking a break— So we’re bringing you Booknotes+. Hosted by Brian Lamb, this episode features Bob Crawford...
Historian and Yale University Professor Beverly Gage joined David M. Rubenstein to discuss her Pulitzer Prize winning biography of former FB...
USC lecturer Nora Lessersohn looks at how racial classifications were used during the naturalization process throughout American history. Th...
University of Florida professor Allen Guelzo teaches a class on Abraham Lincoln's intellectual interests and how the 16th president was more...
Seth Harp is a lawyer and an Iraq war veteran and an investigative writer and journalist. His first book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," is about...
The October 2002 speech by George W. Bush making the case for military action in Iraq was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansa...
Gonzaga history professor Robert Donnelly argues that Jimmy Carter's role in ending the Cold War has largely been overlooked. He looks at ho...
David Sirota, who is based in Denver, Colorado, has some very strong views about money and politics. His book is called "Master Plan: The Hi...
Gonzaga University professor Veta Schlimgen chronicles the history of Hawaii and how it maintained its culture after becoming a U.S. state i...
History professor Lawrence Cappello analyzes Supreme Court cases that address the right to privacy, focusing on police and phone wiretaps. L...
University of Louisville history professor Matthew Goldberg chronicles the 1898 Spanish-American War, fought primarily in Cuba, Guam, and th...
Brigham Young University professor Grant Madsen examines supply-side economics which was termed "Reaganomics." Brigham Young University is l...
Brown University professor Marion Orr lectures on the life & legacy of Congressman Charles Diggs, Jr. The Michigan Democrat founded the Cong...
In 1957, the beeps from Sputnik, a small Russian satellite, sent the USSR & US into a space race. Teasel Muir-Harmony of the Air & Space Mus...
William & Mary lecturer Robyn Schroeder discusses the Williamsburg, Virginia, site where colonial troops built an encampment ahead of the 17...
Boise State history professor Jill Gill lectures on Martin Luther King Jr.'s political strategies in the Civil Rights Movement up until his...
Tulane professor Blake Gilpin discusses three Reconstruction-era Supreme Court cases and how they led to the establishment of Jim Crow segre...
When Kentucky in 1792 became a state, it had a choice; keep slavery or abolish it. University of Kentucky professor Melanie Goan teaches a c...
The National Park Service and other groups held a ceremony in Boston marking the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Learn more...
Carroll College professor Jeanette Fregulia chronicles the Barbary pirates' conflict with American ships during the 18th and 19th centuries....
Northwestern professor Ken Alder presented an image of an 1851 Colt Navy Revolver and asked why the gun was one of the first mass produced t...
Vassar College professor Robert Brigham discussed his upcoming memoir about his search for his biological father, who served as a Marine in...
Chef, humanitarian, and author Jose Andres discussed his career, his global relief efforts with World Central Kitchen, his books, and his lo...
In September 1975, 17 days apart, two women, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco, attempted to assassinate President Gerald For...
The 1967 Six-Day War, 1973 Yom Kippur War, and 2023 Israel-Hamas War have all garnered the United States' diplomatic involvement. Trinity Co...
Author David Grann joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss his books, including "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "The Wager," and visits the va...
On September 14, 1847, Winfield Scott's Army marched into Mexico City, marking the final stages of the Mexican-American War. University of T...
During Reconstruction, a campaign to overthrow the South Carolina government succeeded, triggering a constitutional crisis. University of No...
This week on the Lectures in History podcast: The mystery of the Roanoke Colony’s disappearance. In 1587, English settlers established a col...
What happened when General Custer and Crazy Horse faced off in battle? Stetson University Professor David Morton chronicles the 1876 Great S...
United States Army War College history professor Michael Neiberg discusses Vichy France and the Anglo-American relationship during World War...
When Kentucky in 1792 became a state, it had a choice; keep slavery or abolish it. University of Kentucky professor Melanie Goan teaches a c...
William & Mary Bray School Lab director Maureen Elgersman Lee discusses the history of the 18th-century Williamsburg Bray School for Black c...
The 1992 Republican National Convention speeches by former President Ronald Reagan and Pat Buchanan - who had run for the GOP nomination tha...
Sir Richard J. Evans has been writing about Germany and Adolf Hitler for his entire professional life. He was knighted in Britain in 2012 fo...
Professor James Broussard taught a class on the lead-up to the American Revolution. He described actions by the British government, such as...
University of Utah Professor Eric Hinderaker taught a class about western settlement before, during and after the American Revolution. Using...
Law professor and author Joyce Lee Malcolm discussed Benedict Arnold's triumphs as an American army general in the Revolutionary War and que...
Historian Garrett Graff discusses his oral history of the development, testing and deployment of the atomic bomb in August 1945. Learn more...
Gene Allen Smith, a Texas Christian University history professor, taught a class about George Washington's character. He examined how the fi...
Ithaca College professor Michael Trotti discussed the escalating tensions between colonists and the British government before the American R...
College of William & Mary lecturer Amy Stallings discussed the history of the 1607 Jamestown fort and settlement in Virginia, and how Americ...
Texas Woman's University history professor Cecily Zander discussed the federal government's efforts to explore and control the American west...
Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart taught a class on the development of weapons technology in the American Revolution. Wright S...
University of North Carolina at Pembroke professor Ryan Anderson discussed the rise of a Bohemian culture in the late 19th and early 20th ce...
Santa Clara University history professor Sonia Gomez discusses the intimate relationships between people of different racial and ethnic back...
Boston College communications professor Michael Serazio discussed how baseball connects Americans to their past and culture. Learn more abou...
California State University Fullerton professor Eric Gonzaba taught a class about evangelical nightlife and Christian nightclubs in 1970s Ca...
George Mason University religious studies department chair John Turner teaches a class on the history of Islam and Judaism in America. Learn...
Hillsdale College history professor Mark Moyar discusses competing interpretations of the Vietnam War when it comes to questions about the n...