Lectures in History

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November 03, 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 Constitution.

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55 min
October 27, 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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1 hr 20 min
October 20, 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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1 hr 10 min
October 13, 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 the emergence of the United States.

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1 hr 5 min
October 06, 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 the United States.

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1 hr 7 min
September 29, 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 true crime novels.

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1 hr 41 min
September 22, 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 embraced the arts.

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1 hr 21 min
September 15, 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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1 hr 17 min
September 08, 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 trying to achieve. Professor Jeffries is the brother of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

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1 hr 37 min
September 01, 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 Point Lookout, Missouri.

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1 hr 6 min

About Lectures in History

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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 "After…