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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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84:02

FEED DROP: America 250 Battle of Bunker Hill...

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2025/12/28

The National Park Service and other groups held a ceremony in Boston marking the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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68:47

The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy

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2025/12/21

Carroll College professor Jeanette Fregulia chronicles the Barbary pirates' conflict with American ships during the 18th and 19th centuries.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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76:29

Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production

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2025/12/14

Northwestern professor Ken Alder presented an image of an 1851 Colt Navy Revolver and asked why the gun was one of the first mass produced technologies in the United States. Professor Alder chronicled the origins of American mass production through gunmaking.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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50:23

How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert...

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2025/12/07

Vassar College professor Robert Brigham discussed his upcoming memoir about his search for his biological father, who served as a Marine in Vietnam. This event was part of the 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society at Texas Christian University in Fort WorthLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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63:38

FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and...

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2025/11/30

Chef, humanitarian, and author Jose Andres discussed his career, his global relief efforts with World Central Kitchen, his books, and his love of food with David M. Rubenstein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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67:38

Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story...

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2025/11/23

In September 1975, 17 days apart, two women, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The first attempt on September the 5th came from Annette Squeaky Fromm. The Charles Manson follower spent over 30 years in prison, is out on parole, and is 76 years old. The other attempt came on the non-entrance side of St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on September the 24th, 1975. The shooter, Sara Jane Moore, served 32 years in prison and died almost 50

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75:59

The 1967 Six-Day War and America’s Role in the...

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2025/11/16

The 1967 Six-Day War, 1973 Yom Kippur War, and 2023 Israel-Hamas War have all garnered the United States' diplomatic involvement. Trinity College Professor James Stocker looks at the history of the U.S. negotiating ends to Israeli-Arab conflicts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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62:14

FEED DROP: ABC David Grann on Killers of the Flower...

Lectures in History ·

2025/11/08

Author David Grann joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss his books, including "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "The Wager," and visits the vault of the Folger Shakespeare Library. This is an episode of C-SPAN's new series America's Book Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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80:41

The Mexican-American War: Causes, Consequences, and...

Lectures in History ·

2025/11/01

On September 14, 1847, Winfield Scott's Army marched into Mexico City, marking the final stages of the Mexican-American War. University of Texas professor Aaron O'Connell chronicles the war's causes, the divisions it inflamed, and its aftermath.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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57:33

How Constitutional Order Emerged From Crisis

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2025/10/26

During Reconstruction, a campaign to overthrow the South Carolina government succeeded, triggering a constitutional crisis. University of North Carolina professor and author of "Sedition," Marcus Gadson, analyzed the history behind this event.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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74:22

Gettysburg College’s Timothy Shannon on the Mystery...

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2025/10/19

This week on the Lectures in History podcast:The mystery of the Roanoke Colony’s disappearance. In 1587, English settlers established a colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina — only to vanish without a trace soon after. Gettysburg College Professor Timothy Shannon explores what we know about the lost colony, the people who lived there, and the theories behind one of early America’s greatest mysteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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81:53

The 1876 Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little...

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2025/10/12

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 is located in Deland, Florida.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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47:30

World War II History: Vichy France Collaboration and...

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2025/10/05

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/adchoices

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55:15

Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War

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2025/09/28

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 slavery until the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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96:18

Black Education in Colonial America: The Story of the...

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2025/09/21

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 enrolled.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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59:47

Lectures in History: 1992 Republican National Convention

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2025/09/14

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 the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas political communication professor Robert Rowland. The University of Kansas is in Lawrence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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62:55

FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

Lectures in History ·

2025/09/07

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 Evans published a trilogy of the Third Reich with a total of over 2,500 pages. His latest book is titled "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich." In his preface, Sir Richard, a former professor at Cambridge University writes: "The individuals who stand at the center of this book range from the top

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70:38

James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution

Lectures in History ·

2025/08/31

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 American colonists began to view as an overreach of powerLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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80:59

Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the...

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2025/08/24

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 conflicts and relationships between the new federal government, settlers and Native Americans.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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69:22

Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Benedict Arnold

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2025/08/17

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 is entirely accurate. Professor Malcolm is the author of, The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life. This one hour talk was hosted by the University of Mary Washington as part of their Great Lives Lecture Series.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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