Old Dominion University professor Timothy Orr teaches a course on the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this lecture, he discusses how Union and Confederate forces handled prisoners of war, and takes a look conditions inside some Civil War prison camps. Old Dominion University is located in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Naugatuck Valley Community College professor William Foster teaches an English class in which students investigate relationships between literature and society.  In this lecture, Professor Foster discusses the use of the “N-Word” in American Literature and Culture, with a focus on Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

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In this class, University of Texas at Arlington history professor David Narrett looks at the American Colonial era and the early years of the French & Indian War. This was the North American theater of the global Seven Years War that took place between European powers in the mid-1700s. The conflict in North American pitted the French and their Indian allies against the British and their American colonial subjects.

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College of the Ozarks professor David Dalton teaches an American History survey course that covers colonization to the present.  In this lecture, he discusses the origins of the Cold War following the end of World War Two. College of the Ozarks is located in Point Lookout, Missouri.  This is about an hour and 15 minutes.

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Professor Ellen Wu lectured on Japanese-American internment in the United States during World War II.

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University of New Hampshire political science professor Andrew Smith teaches a course on the New Hampshire Presidential Primary.  In this class he focuses on the primary’s history and its significance in the presidential election process. New Hampshire has traditionally held the nation’s first presidential primary.

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This week we join Thomas Zeiler at the University of Colorado in Boulder for a class on American abundance and prosperity in the 1950s and early ‘60s. Mr. Zeiler has written about and teaches courses on American foreign relations, war and U.S. society, globalization, and baseball.

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This week we join Virginia Tech History Professor Beverly Bunch-Lyons as she teaches a university class on women and slavery, and how they resisted. Professor Bunch-Lyons and her students read first-hand accounts from former slave women about their experiences. Virginia Tech is in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Each week, American History TV sits in on a lecture with one of the country’s college professors. Amy Murrell Taylor teaches at the University of Albany, State University of New York, and this class explores the questions of slave emancipation during the Civil War, leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Each week, American History TV sits in on a lecture with one of the country’s college professors. For this class we travelled to Boston University to hear Professor Thomas Whalen’s lecture on the presidency and cold war policy from 1953 to 1963.

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