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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This week, we’re back at Bowling Green State University for the second part of professor Scott Martin’s class on the history of opiates in America.

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Professor Scott Martin teaches a course on the history of drugs and alcohol in the United States. This class at Bowling Green State University in Ohio focuses on the history of opiates in America.

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We travel this week to Bozeman, Montana, to join History Professor Joan Hoff in her classroom at Montana State University. She’s a Butte, Montana native and the author of four books on American Presidents. This class focuses on Presidents and War, with a focus on the modern presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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American University history professor Allan Lichtman teaches a course on the modern American presidency.  Today’s class, which is the first part of Professor Lichtman’s lecture,  focuses on President Franklin Roosevelt.
 

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George Washington University professor Philip Muehlenbeck teaches a course on U.S. history since 1941.  In today’s class he focuses on John F. Kennedy and his courtship of African Nationalism during his administration.  Muehlenbeck notes that Kennedy’s interest in Africa was partially a moral issue, but he also had strategic considerations in mind.

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Northwestern University Professor Kathryn Burns-Howard discusses societal changes in the first half of the 19th century, including the growing middle class, how this rising affluence changed the home lives of some women, and how this led to the birth of the women’s rights movement.

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Terumi Rafferty-Osaki is an adjunct history professor at American University with expertise in immigration and civil rights. In this week’s class, he talks to students about how African Americans, women and Asians integrated baseball.

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Professor James Spurlock teaches a course on contemporary U.S. history since 1961 at George Washington University. Today’s class looks at President Eisenhower and the contributions he made to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s — a period he argues is often overlooked.

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