Lectures in History
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 "After Words" and "C-SPAN's The Weekly" podcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 67 minutes
- Episodes
- 370
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
U.S. Refugee Policy Since World War II
Professor Maria Cristina Garcia talked about the United States' refugee policy since World War II. She spoke about qualifications to be a refugee and how those have changed as well as legislation gov…
01:02:37 |
Sun 29 Aug 2021
Post-World War II U.S. Auto Industry
University of Central Florida professor Yanek Mieczkowski teaches a class about some of the people who challenged the status quo of the U.S. auto industry from the post-World War II era to the presen…
00:54:49 |
Sun 22 Aug 2021
Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century
Iowa State University professor Tracy Lucht talked about women journalists in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. She described the careers of some pioneers, such as Nellie Bly and Dorothy Dix, a…
01:06:19 |
Sun 15 Aug 2021
Colonial Myths and Monuments
University of Delaware Professor Zara Anishanslin taught a class about how colonial history is remembered through historic sites and monuments, and sometimes contested. She argued that people’s assum…
01:03:17 |
Sun 08 Aug 2021
Salem Witch Trials and the Great Awakening
Baylor University Professor Thomas Kidd taught a class on the First Great Awakening in the Americas, a period in the mid-18th century of Christian revitalization that swept through the colonies. He e…
01:17:54 |
Sun 01 Aug 2021
Korean War and Civil-Military Relations
Professor Joseph Glatthaar talked about the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur’s removal from command by President Harry Truman, and civil-military relations.
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00:59:26 |
Sun 25 Jul 2021
Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois
Professor Maurice Jackson talked about the philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois, an influential African-American sociologist, author, and civil rights activist in late-19th and early 20th centuries. He descr…
01:08:08 |
Sun 18 Jul 2021
20th Century UFO Conspiracies
Emory University professor Felix Harcourt teaches a class on how conspiracy theories about UFOs have shaped America culture. He begins in the late 1940s and describes how public opinion about extrate…
01:17:57 |
Sun 11 Jul 2021
Women in the Early Republic
University of California, Riverside professor Catherine Allgor teaches a class on the lives of women during the American Revolution and the Early Republic. The history of the period has often focused…
01:06:56 |
Sun 04 Jul 2021
Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War
Brown University professor Megan Kate Nelson teaches a class about guerilla warfare, which is largely characterized by its tactics, including ambushes and surprise raids on unsuspecting troops and to…
01:19:06 |
Sun 27 Jun 2021
Early Atlantic Exploration
Northeastern University professor William Fowler taught a class about early Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the Caribbean and the Americas by Europeans. He described t…
01:10:07 |
Sun 20 Jun 2021
The Promise of Suburbia
Johns Hopkins University professor Nathan Connolly teaches a class about the “promise of suburbia” after the civil rights movement. He explores the role of zoning, eminent domain, and property rights…
01:20:48 |
Sun 13 Jun 2021
Donald Rumsfeld on the War on Terror
As a guest lecturer at the Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina in 2012, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gives a talk he calls “The Bush Doctrine, Compassionate Conservatis…
02:07:23 |
Sun 06 Jun 2021
Age & the American Revolution
We visit the James Madison University classroom of professor Rebecca Brannon as she teaches about the concept of age around the time of the Revolutionary War. She debunks the myth that the Founding F…
01:19:42 |
Sun 30 May 2021
Mary Church Terrell & the Black "Mammy" Statue
University of Delaware professor Alison Parker teaches a class about activist Mary Church Terrell's 1923 fight against the United Daughters of the Confederacy's attempt to erect a black "Mammy" statu…
01:03:27 |
Sun 23 May 2021
Native American & English Trade in Colonial Virginia
Virginia Tech professor Jessica Taylor teaches a class about trade relationships between English colonists and Native peoples in Virginia. She talks about the trade networks between tribes prior to E…
01:07:36 |
Sun 16 May 2021
1970s American Car Culture & Film
University of Dayton professors John Heitmann and Todd Uhlman teach a class about 1970s American car culture and films of the era. Using examples like "Easy Rider," "American Graffiti" and "Badlands,…
01:16:26 |
Sun 09 May 2021
1920s American South
Professor Alan Kraut lectured at American University on the economic progress made by the South during the 1920s as part of his history course on the South since Reconstruction. He said that at half …
01:16:45 |
Sun 02 May 2021
1864 Presidential Election
Christopher Newport University professor Jonathan White teaches a class about the 1864 presidential election pitting incumbent Abraham Lincoln against his former top general, Democrat George McClella…
01:21:34 |
Sun 25 Apr 2021
John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy
Iowa State University History Professor Charles Dobbs talked about President John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy. Topics included the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the raising of the Berlin Wall,…
00:51:28 |
Sun 18 Apr 2021
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