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.

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1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 1
51 min
27
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glo...
69 min
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FEED DROP: Booknotes+ Erik Larson, "The Demon o...
66 min
29
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Howard Blum, "Night of t...
61 min
30
The Great Depression
68 min
31
Road to the 1787 Constitutional Convention
50 min
32
Ryan White & the AIDS Epidemic
76 min
33
America's National Pastime
65 min
34
Southeast American Indians During the 18th Century
62 min
35
Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War
64 min
36
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
97 min
37
Gilded Age Bohemians
76 min
38
The American Presidency and Foreign Policy
72 min
39
Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement
92 min
40
Rise of Industry in the Gilded age
61 min
41
When Polls Go Bad
61 min
42
Obama's 2004 DNC Keynote
63 min
43
Nixon, Ford & the Constitution
60 min
44
American Churches During World War 1
71 min
45
The Red Scare 1940s-1950s
70 min
46
Appalachia in the American Imagination
65 min
47
Eisenhower & 1950s Political Advertising
73 min
48
Civil War Weaponry
54 min
49
Army Explorers of the West
77 min
50
History of Abortion
52 min