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- American History TV - Lectures in History
- American History TV viewers join students in the classroom to hear lectures on campuses across the country, on topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9-11.
Recent programs:- Evolving Nature of the Civil War (56 min. 31 sec. - June 22, 2013)
Florida Atlantic University professor Stephen Engle teaches a class on the evolving nature of the Civil War. Among the issues discussed: President Lincolns decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the war -- and to use former slaves as troops and how these ideas changed the Civil War from a fight to preserve the Union, to one about abolishing slavery, thus altering the nation forever. - End of Slavery to Segregation (1 hr. 6 min. - June 15, 2013)
University of Kansas professor Shawn Leigh Alexander teaches a class on the period following the end of slavery to the beginning of segregation. Professor Alexander discusses the failed Civil Rights Act of 1875, the Supreme Courts 1896 "separate but equal" ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, and the work of African American journalist Ida B. Wells to expose the horrors of lynching in the United States. - Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy (1 hr. 56 min. - June 8, 2013)
Oregon State University professor Christopher McKnight Nichols teaches a class on Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy, focusing on the period between 1989 and 2001. The class looks at military engagements by the United States during the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. Oregon State University is in Corvallis.
- Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 (1 hr. 15 min. - June 1, 2013)
Goucher College professor Jean Baker teaches a class on the Civil Right Movement, from Rosa Parks refusal to move to the back of the bus in 1955, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The class also engages in a discussion on a book of oral histories by journalist Howell Raines titled, "My Soul is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South." Goucher College is in Baltimore, Maryland. - the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1 hr. 13 min. - May 25, 2013)
Michael Gomez talked about the transatlantic slave trade from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century, including the countries involved and the methods used in the procurement of slaves, such as raiding and kidnapping. He also spoke about the history of Africans who dealt in the slave trade to pay debts and punish neighboring factions. - Iran-Contra Affair (1 hr. 50 min. - May 18, 2013)
Metropolitan State University professor Douglas Rossinow teaches a class on the Iran-Contra affair, which took place in the mid-1980s during the Reagan Administration. The Iran-Contra affair stems from Reagan administration officials funding the Contras - who were fighting against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua - with money from the sale of arms to Iran. The arms were being sold to Iran in the hope of gaining the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - hence the reason the affair is sometimes called as the "arms-for-hostages" scandal.
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