Louisiana State University history professor William Cooper examines the idea of  honor in the Antebellum South. Professor Cooper explains how a person's honor was significantly defined by public perception. And for a gentleman, any perceived slight of a person's honor demanded defense, usually through a duel.

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Columbia University history professor Eric Foner discusses the rise of Socialism in America in the early 20th century.  Professor Foner examines the Socialist Party in New York City and Milwaukee and the Socialist Party of America presidential campaigns of Eugene V. Debs.

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American Studies Professor Jonathan White looks at Civil Liberties and Treason during the Civil War.  This class took place at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.

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History Professor Chandra Manning looks at the Emancipation Proclamation and the escalation of the Civil War. Professor Manning also examines the role that black soldiers played in the Union victory. The class took place at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

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Michael Barone examines the writings and observations of the 19th-century French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, focusing on Tocqueville's conceptions of liberty, equality and community. Mr Barone was a guest lecturer at The Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina, in a course called "The Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America" taught by Professor Mallory Factor.

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Columbia Law School professor Nathaniel Persily looks at the history of redistricting and gerrymandering in the United States.  Professor Persily discusses the origin of the term "gerrymandering" in the early 1800s, and the use of redistricting by political parties and incumbents to protect and advance their interests.  He also talks about more racially charged redistricting fights, such as the 1960 Gomillion vs. Lightfoot Supreme Court case in which the court found that a district had been created to disenfranchise black voters.  That case helped lead to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, outlawing discriminatory voting practices.

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Harvard University professor John Stauffer discusses African Americans and the Civil War.  Professor Stauffer examines Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, focusing on the president's claim that secession was unconstitutional.  He also teaches about President Lincoln’s efforts to keep the border states in the Union, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the involvement of black soldiers in both the Union and Confederate Armies.

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University of Washington American History Professor Quintard Taylor looks at the Civil Rights Movement from the 1940s through the 1960s.  Professor Taylor focuses on the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Brown v. Board of Education and the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Ball State University history professor James Connolly looks at Immigration and the Roots of Pluralism in the United States. Ball State University is in Muncie, Indiana.

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Northeastern University history professor William Fowler looks at Early Atlantic Exploration, Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the Caribbean and the Americas.

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