American History Podcast
1) Golden: How California Made America
Acclaimed historian Louis Warren, professor of U.S. Western History at the University of California, Davis, explores how Californians remade American ideas of property and power between 1848 and the p...Show More
2) An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873
Benjamin Madley, associate professor of history at UCLA, discusses the near-annihilation and survival of California's indigenous population under United States rule in this Billington Lecture
3) The Lady and George Washington
Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor at Boston College Law School, discusses the responses of George Washington and Benjamin Rush to Eliza Harriot O'Connor's remarkable university lectures in 1787 an...Show More
4) Anton Roman: San Francisco’s Pioneering Bookseller & Publisher
John Crichton, proprietor of the Brick Row Book Shop in San Francisco, shares the story of pioneering entrepreneur Anton Roman (1828–1903), who came to California from Bavaria in 1849 to make his fort...Show More
5) A Mormon Diarist in California, 1850–1858
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor of History at Harvard University, shares stories from the remarkable diary of Caroline Crosby. The w...Show More
6) “The Theater of Many Deeds of Blood”: The Geography of Violence in Frontier Los Angeles
John Mack Faragher, the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale University, discusses the spatial pattern of homicide in Southern California in the 19th century. Thi...Show More
7) PBS’s “Mercy Street” and Medical Histories of the Civil War
The Huntington presents a fascinating conversation about the practice of medicine during the U.S. Civil War and its dramatization in the popular PBS series “Mercy Street.” The panel discussion is mode...Show More
8) The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution
Christopher Brown, professor of history at Columbia University, explores the relationship between two themes in American history that are usually treated separately. Brown discusses the impact the war...Show More
9) The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby, professor of history at Columbia University, uses the story of the remarkable Gilded Age border crosser William Ellis to discuss the shifting relationship between the United States and Me...Show More
10) Let the People Rule
Geoffrey Cowan, president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, discusses his book "Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary". Using a trove of newl...Show More