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
Nixon, Ford & the Constitution
Duquesne University president Ken Gormley taught a class looking at constitutional issues that arose during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He gave particular focus to the Watergat…
01:03:58 |
Sun 11 Aug 2024
American Churches During World War 1
Hillsdale College Professor Richard Gamble taught a class on American churches and religion during World War I. He discussed how American pastors, ministers, and rabbis spoke about the Great War befo…
01:15:15 |
Sun 04 Aug 2024
The Red Scare 1940s-1950s
University of California, Davis, history Professor Kathryn Olmsted taught a class on how the ‘Red Scare’ evolved into a wide-ranging conspiracy theory in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.
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01:13:50 |
Sun 28 Jul 2024
Appalachia in the American Imagination
Professor Benjamin Bankhurst talked about Appalachia in the American imagination. He described how the regional stereotype has changed over time, from the view of “backwards hillbillies” during the I…
01:08:33 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Eisenhower & 1950s Political Advertising
Purdue University Professor Kathryn Brownell taught a class about political advertising in the 1950s, highlighting Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential campaigns. She compared radio and early televised a…
01:17:11 |
Sun 14 Jul 2024
Civil War Weaponry
Guilford Technical Community College Professor Jeff Kinard taught a class about Civil War weaponry and shared artifacts such as muskets, carbines, and revolvers. He described technological advances, …
00:58:16 |
Sun 07 Jul 2024
Army Explorers of the West
Texas Woman’s University history professor Cecily Zander discussed the federal government’s efforts to explore and control the American west from the early 1800's through the Civil War. Texas Woman’s…
01:21:10 |
Sun 30 Jun 2024
History of Abortion
University of California, Davis, law professor Mary Ziegler discussed the history of abortion and contraception laws in the United States.
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00:56:12 |
Sun 23 Jun 2024
20th Century Fundamentalism & Pentecostalism
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Molly Worthen taught a class about the history and the intellectual underpinnings of Protestant fundamentalism in 20th century America. She began…
01:10:59 |
Sun 16 Jun 2024
D-Day & Omaha Beach
Professor Adrian Lewis talked about about Omaha Beach and the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, France, during World War II. He described the German and Allied military strategies as well as the comma…
00:54:54 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
C.S. Lewis
Calvin University Professor Micah Watson discussed C.S. Lewis’s views on law, politics, and government and how they connected to his Christian beliefs. This lecture took place at the Acton Institute …
01:21:49 |
Sun 02 Jun 2024
WWII Battle of the Atlantic
University of Notre Dame military history professor Ian Ona Johnson discussed the contest for control of Atlantic sea routes during World War II. The University of Notre Dame is located in Indiana.
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00:57:18 |
Sun 26 May 2024
The Road to Brown v. Board of Education
Prairie View A&M history professor Malachi Crawford discusses the evolution of civil rights law from efforts to dismantle Jim Crow and racial segregation to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supre…
01:07:18 |
Sun 19 May 2024
The West Virginia Mine Wars
Virginia Tech lecturer Taulby Edmondson discussed unionization efforts in the West Virginia mining industry that led to a series of armed conflicts in the 1910s and 1920s. Virginia Tech is located in…
01:17:00 |
Sun 12 May 2024
Confederate Monuments & Labor Integration in New Orleans
Tulane University History Professor Rien Fertel discusses the erection of Confederate monuments in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century at the same time as efforts to integrate and unionize Bl…
00:45:25 |
Sun 05 May 2024
Reagan's 1982 Address to Parliament
President Ronald Reagan's 1982 address to the British Parliament was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas political communication professor Robert Rowland. The University of Kansas is …
01:04:53 |
Sun 28 Apr 2024
HBCUs & Student Activism in North Carolina
North Carolina Central University history professor Jasmin Howard discussed student activism and the civil rights movement at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in North Carolina. North Car…
01:01:26 |
Sun 21 Apr 2024
Women & Employment Laws in the Early 20th Century
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, political science professor William Blake discusses early 20th century Supreme Court cases on laws regulating minimum wages and maximum hours for female work…
01:19:20 |
Sun 14 Apr 2024
Mamie Till-Mobley & Remembering Emmett Till
University of Kentucky writing and rhetoric professor Brandon Erby discussed the legacy of Mamie Till-Mobley and her efforts to bring awareness to the 1955 murder of her son Emmett Till. The Universi…
01:02:23 |
Sun 07 Apr 2024
Richard Nixon & the 1968 Election
Chapman University history professor Luke Nichter discusses Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign and the issues in that year’s presidential election.
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01:11:47 |
Sun 31 Mar 2024
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