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Lectures in History: Generalship of Robert E. Lee
Saturday, April 28, 2012     Annapolis, Maryland

U.S. Naval Academy History Professor Wayne Hsieh examines the Generalship of Robert E. Lee.  This class is part of a course called, "The American Way of War."

Lectures in History: War on Terrorism
Saturday, April 14, 2012     Charleston, South Carolina

Donald Rumsfeld talks about his early years in government as a member of the Nixon & Ford administrations, then the War on Terrorism from his time as Defense Secretary for President George W. Bush.  Mr. Rumsfeld is 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.

Lectures in History: 1850s Collapse of the Second Party System
Saturday, April 14, 2012     Grove City, Pennsylvania

This program looks at the Compromise of 1850 and the collapse of the Second Party System with Gillis Harp, a professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.  This class is part of a survey course called "History of the United States to 1865," which covers American history from the colonial era through the Civil War.

Lectures in History: Edmund Burke & the Origins of Modern Conservatism
Saturday, April 7, 2012     Charleston, South Carolina

Attorney David Norcross lectures on Edmund Burke and the Origins of Modern Conservatism at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.  Mr. Norcross is a guest lecturer in a class called "The Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America," taught by Mallory Factor, an International Politics and American Government professor.

Lectures in History: Abolitionist & Women's Rights Movements in Early 19th Century
Saturday, March 31, 2012     Columbus, Ohio

Ohio State University history professor Joan Cashin looks at the Abolitionist and Women’s Rights movements and slavery in the early part of 19th century. This class is from a course on Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America.

Lectures in History: Urban America in the Mid-20th Century
Saturday, March 24, 2012     Brunswick, Maine

Bowdoin College professor Brian Purnell examines urban America in the mid-twentieth century.  The class is part of a course called, "The Wire: Race, Class, Gender,and the Urban Crisis," which covers the social, economic, political, and cultural dynamics of U.S. cities after World War II.

Lectures in History: North Vietnamese Strategy During the Vietnam War
Saturday, March 10, 2012     Monterey, California

Donald Stoker is a professor at the Naval War College in Monterey, California.

This class is about North Vietnamese strategy during the Vietnam War.

It is part of a course called, “Strategy and War,” which examines the relationship between political goals and the use of military force.

Lectures in History: Election of 1860 & Secession
Saturday, March 3, 2012     Hattiesburg, Mississippi

<p> University of Southern Mississippi professor Susannah Ural teaches a course on the history of the United States from its founding to 1877.&nbsp; In this lecture, Professor Ural focuses on the presidential election of 1860 and the secession of southern states.</p>

Lectures in History: Music of the Civil Rights Movement
Sunday, February 26, 2012     Ann Arbor, Michigan

University of Michigan history professor Kevin Gaines on the music of the civil rights and black power movement. Several songs and slides are featured during the class.

Lectures in History: Franklin Roosevelt & the Modern Presidency
Saturday, February 18, 2012     Washington, DC

American University history professor Allan Lichtman teaches a course on the modern American presidency.

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