Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
The historical legacy of singer Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” her lament about the lynchings of African Americans, w…
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Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson's Legacy
Atlantic Staff Writer David Frum - speaking from Woodrow Wilson’s Washington, D.C., home - reconsidered the 28th preside…
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Reagan's 1982 Address to Parliament
President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 address to the British Parliament was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas…
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High School Advanced Placement - U.S. History Exam 2024
Jason Stacy and Matthew Ellington, co-authors of Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources, for the AP® US H…
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J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Age
Historian and biographer Allen Pietrobon looked at J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other personalities behind the Manhatta…
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Silent Cavalry
Author and journalist Howell Raines talked about Union soldiers from Alabama who aided General Sherman in his 1864 March…
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Little Smokey
This U.S. Forest Service film tells the story of the real Smokey Bear, from his rescue during a 1950 forest fire in New …
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Author Stacy Schiff on Benjamin Franklin as a Diplomat
American History TV talked about America’s first diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, and the Apple+ TV series about his life an…
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How the Best Did It
What can we learn about leadership from our most successful presidents? Author Talmage Boston shared his own takeaways f…
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President Reagan's First Press Conference
Ronald Reagan gave his first press conference nine days after taking the oath of office on January 20, 1981. Questions a…
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