Lectures in History

University of Southern Mississippi Professor Andrew Wiest, with the help of a local veteran John Young, teaches a class about the Vietnam War, focusing on the Mekong Delta.

Georgetown University professor Maurice Jackson teaches a class on the philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois, an influential African-American sociologist, author and Civil Rights activist in late-19th and early 20th centuries.

Clemson University professor Roger Grant talks about the history of American transportation and the rise of interurban electric rail at the end of the 19th and early 20th century.

Marshall University professor Kat Williams talks about life on the home front during World War II and the rise of women's baseball leagues.

University of Georgia professor Stephen Berry teaches a class about coroners in the 19th century South. He discusses the role of a coroner as an agent of the state and talks about the records created from their inquests.

University of Washington, Bothell, history professor Dan Berger examines the rise of mass incarceration in the United States and the politics behind it.

Professor Thomas Balcerski talks about the culture of Congress in the Antebellum Era, how members of Congress in the early 1800s bonded across party lines, and how those friendships evolved as the Civil War approached.

Dickinson College professor David O'Connell examines presidential legacies and the factors that contribute to making a presidential term successful.

Emporia State University history professor Brian Craig Miller teaches a class on Civil War veterans and how options for aid and support for the former soldiers varied widely in the Southern states.

University of Texas at Dallas professor Natalie Ring talks about the common practice of lynching black men as punishment for perceived crimes in the Jim Crow era South.

Chapman University history professor Jennifer Keene looks at myths about America's involvement in World War I.

University of Washington, Bothell, history professor Dan Berger examines the rise of mass incarceration in the United States and the politics behind it.

John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon and now Barry Goldwater Chair of American Institutions at Arizona State University, teaches a class on Watergate and the discovery of the Nixon White House taping system.

Robert Chiles of the University of Maryland talks about labor and social unrest during the Gilded Age, as well as the reforms that tried to combat this discontent.

Towson University history professor Elizabeth Gray talks about the use of and public opinion on opium and laudanum in the 19th century.