Videos

Panelists examined the wartime role of the sinking of the Lusitania, the worldwide reaction to the tragedy, and its impact on American public opinion about the war. On May 7, 1915, the RMS …

Authors and historians looked at what motivated the U.S. to get involved in World War I. Reasons discussed included the influence of British propaganda as well as the Zimmermann Telegram, an…

Next on American History TV, a discussion on World War II reporting and censorship, and the experience of Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy. Kennedy was fired in 1945 after he defied a m…

John Maxwell Hamilton talked about his book Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting (Louisiana State University Press; September 14, 2009).In his book veteran former…

John Maxwell Hamilton spoke about his book Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling and Reading of Books published by Louisian…

John Maxwell Hamilton talked about his book Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books, published by Louis…