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
SHORT SERIES: Baseball in the Gilded Age
Professor Joan Waugh talked about the rise of baseball as a national activity, spectator event, and business. She described the efforts of baseball club owners to codify the rules of the games, estab…
01:19:39 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
SHORT SERIES: Baseball During the Depression
Pepperdine University professor Loretta Hunnicutt taught a class about baseball during the Great Depression. She looked at the role of baseball in American culture and the origins of sports journalis…
01:02:08 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 2
University of Maryland history professor Michael discussed, in the second of a two part lecture, the 1893 trial of Lizzie Borden. She was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe. T…
00:54:19 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 1
University of Maryland history professor Michael Ross discussed the 1893 trial of Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe. The murders and trial received wid…
00:55:20 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"
Richard Brookhiser has written and edited for National Review magazine for over 50 years. He has also written books about George Washington, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, and "gen…
01:13:13 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
FEED DROP: Booknotes+ Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"
In the first week of publication of Erik Larson's latest book, "The Demon of Unrest," sales put it at the very top of the bestseller list. It's about the start of the Civil War, with a focus on the f…
01:09:35 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"
In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allied leaders FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin were planning to meet secretly in Tehran. The Nazis wanted to kill them.
In his book "Night of the …
01:05:16 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
The Great Depression
Indiana University history professor Carolina Ortega discussed the 1929 Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and the impact that the economic crash had on various populations, i…
01:12:14 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
Road to the 1787 Constitutional Convention
University of Dallas history professor William Atto discussed the decade leading to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the key compromises that led to the ratification of the United States Consti…
00:54:23 |
Sun 03 Nov 2024
Ryan White & the AIDS Epidemic
Florida State University history professor Paul Renfro discussed the life and death of Indiana teenager Ryan White, who emerged as one of the faces of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
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01:19:55 |
Sun 27 Oct 2024
America's National Pastime
Boston College communications professor Michael Serazio discussed how baseball connects Americans to their past and culture.
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01:09:04 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
Southeast American Indians During the 18th Century
University of North Carolina at Pembroke history professor Jamie Myers discussed Southeast Native American tribes during the 18th century and the impacts of colonialism, the American Revolution, and …
01:04:03 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War
Hillsdale College history professor Mark Moyar discusses competing interpretations of the Vietnam War when it comes to questions about the necessity of the conflict and whether it was winnable for th…
01:06:05 |
Sun 06 Oct 2024
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
Georgetown University English professor Christopher Shinn discussed the history and cultural reception of Truman Capote's 1967"In Cold Blood" as well as its impact on the genres of pulp fiction and t…
01:40:45 |
Sun 29 Sep 2024
Gilded Age Bohemians
University of North Carolina at Pembroke professor Ryan Anderson discussed the rise of a Bohemian culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that rejected conventional societal restraints and …
01:20:22 |
Sun 22 Sep 2024
The American Presidency and Foreign Policy
Presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky discussed how presidential foreign policy and warmaking powers evolved from the time of George Washington to the modern era
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01:16:08 |
Sun 15 Sep 2024
Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement
Ohio State University history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries discussed historical narratives of the Civil Rights Movement and modern understandings of victories, defeats and what the movement was try…
01:36:41 |
Sun 08 Sep 2024
Rise of Industry in the Gilded age
College of the Ozarks professor David Dalton, who teaches a class on 19th Century American history, discussed the rise of American industry in the Gilded Age. College of the Ozarks is located in Poin…
01:05:12 |
Sun 01 Sep 2024
When Polls Go Bad
American University Professor Joseph Campbell taught a class on public opinion and election forecasting. He spoke about some of the most significant polling misses in American politics. American Univ…
01:05:11 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote
Former President Barack Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas political communication professor Robert Rowland. Th…
01:06:40 |
Sun 18 Aug 2024
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