History professor Matthew O’Brien looks at the causes, major battles and repercussions of World War II. Professor O’Brien examines Hitler’s advance through Europe and Winston Churchill’s strategy to fight the Nazis. Also discussed are the failing of the Soviet Union’s non-aggression pact with Germany, and the eventual full participation of the United States in the war following the attack on Pearl Harbor. This class took place at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio.

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Stanford University professor Allyson Hobbs, a specialist in 20th century African American history, discusses the Great Migration, a period when millions of blacks moved from the South to areas North and West after 1910.

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Professor Jeffrey McClurken evaluates the 1939 movie “Gone with the Wind,” looking at it as a source on southern culture during the Civil War & Reconstruction, and reflective of the Depression era in which it was created. This class is from a course on “U.S. History in Film” at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Judith Reisman discusses the cultural and legal impact of the work of Alfred Kinsey, the mid-20th century scientist best-known for his books, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.” Ms. Reisman is a Visiting Law Professor at Liberty University, and a guest lecturer in this course called “Sexual Behavior and the Law.” Liberty University is in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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University of Hartford professor Warren Goldstein discusses Martin Luther King, Jr.'s time spent in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Civil Rights movement there in 1963.

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Purdue University history professor Randy Roberts examines the connections between popular culture and World War II in films such as "Casablanca" and "The Fighting Seabees," and in songs such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B."  Professor Roberts also describes how patriotic sentiments made their way into comic books like Captain America.

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Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio history professor Robert Doyle discusses Prisoners of War held by the United States.  This class details the numbers and treatment of POWs from the American Revolution through Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Craig Shirley - author of two books on Ronald Reagan - guest lectures at President Reagan's alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois.  Mr Shirley discusses the career and political campaigns of the nation's 40th president.

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University of Maryland professor Richard Bell looks at the British occupation of Colonial Boston.  In October of 1768 a fleet of warships carrying British infantry regiments anchored in Boston harbor.  The troops were sent to reassert Britain's control over the increasingly disloyal colony and to ensure that the correct amount of taxes were collected and sent to Britain.

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Colorado State University professor Ann Little examines the clothing worn by some Colonial American women, with a focus on Stays, which are similar to Corsets.  Both male and female children of the time wore Stays until around the age of seven -- when males would cease wearing them -- while females would continue to wear them throughout their adult lives.

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