Videos

University of Georgia American History professor Claudio Saunt discussed the federal government’s forced migration of Native Americans to territories west of the Mississippi in the mid-19th …

University of Chicago African American history professor emeritus Thomas Holt provided a history of the civil rights movement. This was a virtual event hosted by the Atlanta History Center.

Stephen and Paul Kendrick recounted Martin Luther King’s imprisonment in the days prior to the 1960 presidential election and the efforts of members of John F. Kennedy’s campaign to secure h…

Historian H.W. Brands provided a dual biography of abolitionist John Brown and Abraham Lincoln. This was a virtual event hosted by the Atlanta History Center.

Author and journalist Lisa Napoli provided a history of cable news and the rise of the 24-hour news cycle. This was a virtual event hosted by the Atlanta History Center.

The Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded in 1841 and would become the largest mental institution in the world. In her book, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and th…

Retired pediatrician and geneticist Bettye Kearse investigated her family’s lineage and its oral history that claims they are descendants of James Madison and his slave, Coreen.