American History (Video)

American History (Video) episodes:

• 02.24.2023

  A Conversation with N. Scott Momaday - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2023

  Poet, novelist and Native American scholar N. Scott Momaday has spent decades bringing his culture and the landscape alive through his writing. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "House Made of Dawn." His books include "The...

  
• 09.30.2022

  Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Address

  On March 4th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address. He considered it his “greatest speech” and his “best effort." Join Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss and best-selling Lincoln biographer Dr. Ronald C. White for a fascinating look...

  
• 09.23.2022

  Digging into Local Archives: Approaches and Methods for Planning Research

  In this program, Emily Lin, with the UC Merced Library, explains the process of digging into archives, including a look at how archives are created, where to look and what to expect to find, and strategies and possibilities for research....

  
• 06.09.2022

  Triton Talks: The Kumeyaay Nation in San Diego

  The Kumeyaay are native inhabitants of San Diego and Imperial counties and Baja California, Mexico. For thousands of years, the Kumeyaay people farmed the land and ocean, managed forest fires, manufactured pottery and basketry and engaged in commerce and...

  
• 10.29.2021

  LSD and the War on Memories with Joel Dimsdale

  Beginning in the 1950s, the United States embarked on an elaborate program to study how LSD might be used to alter the behavior of an enemy. This collaboration between academia and government conducted astonishing studies with little regard for the...

  
• 09.28.2020

  The Partisan Divide - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas

  This lecture takes on the question of why we have only two political parties in the United States and how the two party system shapes our politics. Most significantly, this lecture looks at the ways in which the politics of...

  
• 09.09.2020

  How Democratic is the US Constitution? - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas

  “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” As look at the history of American democracy, we begin with the nation’s founding contradiction: the dispossession of Natives, the enslavement of Africans and the exclusion of...

  
• 01.15.2020

  Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin

  Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation struggles include the important yet relatively unknown series of early twentieth-century southern African American streetcar boycotts as well as the iconic Civil Rights-Black Power Insurgency (1935-75)....

  
• 12.31.2019

  Meet John Doe Discussion with Victoria Riskin

  America’s pre-WWII anxieties, Depression-era economic disparity, and the potential for positive social movements arise in this conversation about Frank Capra (director) and Robert Riskin’s (screenwriter) film Meet John Doe (1941) between author Victoria Riskin (Robert Riskin and Fay Wray: A...

  
• 12.19.2019

  Gifts of the Storyteller with Brenda Stevenson - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture

  UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful moments and eras. Because there is not much in the way of documentary evidence of the lives of women of color, enslaved women...

  
• 11.15.2018

  Rap on Trial: Is it a Crime to Rhyme?

  Should your art send you to prison? Rap lyrics are increasingly turning up as evidence in courtrooms across the country. The fictional characters portrayed in violent gansta rap songs are often a far cry from the true personalities of the...

  
• 11.07.2018

  Fighting Fire With Fire: Using Cultural Burning Practices

  Ron Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, led UC Davis professor, Beth Rose Middleton Manning's, students through a cultural burn. Students participated in preparing the land and igniting the fire, and contributed to a historic indigenous tradition....

  
• 04.06.2018

  Rap on Trial: Is it a Crime to Rhyme?

  Should your art send you to prison? Rap lyrics are increasingly turning up as evidence in courtrooms across the country. The fictional characters portrayed in violent gansta rap songs are often a far cry from the true personalities of the...

  
• 09.11.2017

  Honoring Sally: Tam O'Shaughnessy Aboard the R/V Sally Ride

  In this candid and heartwarming interview, Tam O'Shaughnessy, the life partner of the late astronaut Sally Ride, describes her long relationship with the first American woman in space. From their days on the teen tennis circuit in California through Sally’s...

  
• 12.26.2016

  Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

  Thomas Jefferson had a vision for the United States of America but race and slavery complicated his views of what kind of society was possible on the American continent. One of the foremost scholars on Jefferson, Pulitzer prize winner Annette...

  
• 11.14.2016

  Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings and the Burden of Slavery with Annette Gordon-Reed - Conversations with History

  Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed for a discussion of her work as a lawyer/historian focusing on the contradictions in the life of Thomas Jefferson. Topics covered in the conversation include how her training as a lawyer...

  
• 10.24.2016

  Surreal Politics: How Anxiety About Race Gender and Inequality is Shaping the 2016 Presidential Campaign

  As the contentious 2016 election season heads into its final weeks, California Live speakers from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley delve into the impact of race, gender and income inequality on the campaigns of Hillary Clinton...

  
• 06.01.2015

  Tomorrow’s Leaders: Building on the Legacy of Selma with Myrlie Evers-Williams -- Helen Edison Lecture Series

  From the moment Myrlie Evers-Williams faced the murder of her husband, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, she became a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement. For more than five decades, she has fought to carry on his legacy, never...

  
• 04.27.2015

  The Role of Latinos in a Changing America with Cruz Reynoso -- Helen Edison Lecture Series

  Former California Supreme Court Justice and UC Davis School of Law Professor Emeritus Cruz Reynoso recalls his days working alongside Cesar Chavez in the Community Service Organization and speaks to the influence of Latinos today on immigration, voting rights, police...

  
• 04.20.2015

  Gerald Horne: Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

  Former UCSB professor Gerald Horne, the award-winning author of more than thirty books, discusses his book “The Counter-Revolution of 1776” which argues that for the country's forefathers, "freedom" meant the right to keep others enslaved—and that the consequences of this...

  
• 02.27.2015

  Lessons for Our Youth: Chicana/o Activism in the Vietnam War Era

  A distinguished panel of community leaders and activists share anecdotes and answer questions about Chicana/o involvement in the Vietnam-era protest movement, including the 1970 National Chicano Moratorium. [Humanities] [Show ID: 29127]

  
• 01.19.2015

  San Diego and the Panama-California Exposition of 1915: The Search for Civic Identity - Kevin Starr

  Eminent California historian Kevin Starr traces the emergence of San Diego’s role in the distinctly Southern California aesthetic of “Mediterranean-ism,” as seen in the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show...

  
• 01.05.2015

  Were the Framers Right About Constitutional Design? The US Constitution in Comparative Perspective

  The founding fathers were political theorists of the highest order, and founded the modern era of constitutional design. But how have their propositions fared over the course of the subsequent two centuries, in which over 900 constitutions have been written?...

  
• 09.24.2014

  Nice Jewish Girls - Radicals Activists and Rabbis

  Rabbi Laura Geller looks at the role Jewish women played in some of the struggles that have shaped our country. She also explore the different ways men and women have been agents of social change both in the Jewish community...

  
• 08.11.2014

  Here Be Pirates: The First Citizen Scientists -- The Library Channel

  A love of learning and teaching about pirates inspired UC San Diego’s Mark Hanna to tap the world-renowned Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, housed in Special Collections & Archives at the UC San Diego Library, to bring history to life...

  
• 06.30.2014

  The First U.S. ‘War on Terror’: The 1798 Sedition Act and Constitutional Politics in the Age of Jefferson

  University of Virginia’s Charles McCurdy explores how the Founding Fathers dealt with the unanticipated emergence of hotly contested, increasingly political interpretations of the Constitution during the first decade of the Early Republic and also how they responded to fact that...

  
• 06.18.2014

  History Politics and Law with Charles McCurdy - Conversations with History

  Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Charles McCurdy, Professor of History and Law, University of Virginia, for a discussion of the interactions of law and politics in the United States. Case studies discussed include: Justice Stephen Field; The...

  
• 06.03.2014

  Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement -- The Library Channel

  The UC San Diego Library announces the purchase of the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, an online archive containing thousands of documents related to the history of the United Farm Workers’ union and related events. A short video on the ...

  
• 02.17.2014

  Benjamin Franklin and the American Dream with Alan Houston -- The Good Life

  Benjamin Franklin and the American dream are often associated with the uninhibited pursuit of money. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues UC San Diego political scientist Alan Houston. To Franklin, the good life – a life of...

  
• 02.03.2014

  The Brick People

  “The Brick People” chronicles the story and legacy of Mexican immigrants who came to work at Simons Brickyard #3 in Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. The bricks they made literally built Los Angeles and...

  
• 01.13.2014

  Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

  Angela Davis visited UC Santa Barbara for a screening of "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners," a documentary by Shola Lynch that chronicles Davis's life as a young, outspoken UCLA professor. Angela Davis and producer Sidra Smith answer questions from...

  
• 10.14.2013

  Books That Changed America with Jay Parini -- Dinner in the Library

  Renowned author and Middlebury College Professor Jay Parini charms his dinner audience with selections from his “Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America.” From “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” and “Walden,” through “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to “How to Win Friends...

  
• 08.05.2013

  The Unwinding with George Packer - Conversations with History

  Harry Kreisler welcomes George Packer for a discussion of his new book, “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.” Packer discusses his formative experiences, including forging his own political identity and coming to terms with the legacy...