Lectures in History Podcast
1) The 1876 Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
What happened when General Custer and Crazy Horse faced off in battle? Stetson University Professor David Morton chronicles the 1876 Great Sioux War in the South Dakota Black Hills. Stetson University...Show More
2) World War II History: Vichy France Collaboration and the U.S.-UK Alliance
United States Army War College history professor Michael Neiberg discusses Vichy France and the Anglo-American relationship during World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...Show More
3) Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War
When Kentucky in 1792 became a state, it had a choice; keep slavery or abolish it. University of Kentucky professor Melanie Goan teaches a class on the state's relationship with the institution of sla...Show More
4) Black Education in Colonial America: The Story of the Williamsburg Bray School
William & Mary Bray School Lab director Maureen Elgersman Lee discusses the history of the 18th-century Williamsburg Bray School for Black children and the legacies of the 300 to 400 scholars it enrol...Show More
5) Lectures in History: 1992 Republican National Convention
The 1992 Republican National Convention speeches by former President Ronald Reagan and Pat Buchanan - who had run for the GOP nomination that year against incumbent President George H.W. Bush - was th...Show More
6) FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"
Sir Richard J. Evans has been writing about Germany and Adolf Hitler for his entire professional life. He was knighted in Britain in 2012 for his service to scholarship. From 2003-2008, Professor Evan...Show More
7) James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution
Professor James Broussard taught a class on the lead-up to the American Revolution. He described actions by the British government, such as the Stamp Act and stationing British troops in Boston, that ...Show More
8) Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution
University of Utah Professor Eric Hinderaker taught a class about western settlement before, during and after the American Revolution. Using the Kentucky territory as an example, he described the conf...Show More
9) Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Benedict Arnold
Law professor and author Joyce Lee Malcolm discussed Benedict Arnold's triumphs as an American army general in the Revolutionary War and questioned whether his legacy as a notorious American traitor i...Show More
10) Garrett Graff, "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky"
Historian Garrett Graff discusses his oral history of the development, testing and deployment of the atomic bomb in August 1945. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices