Videos

Journalist and author Cameron McWhirter and historian Saje Mathieu discussed what is known as the “Red Summer” of 1919, a months-long period of racial unrest and violence against African Ame…

Walter Borneman talked about his book Rival Rails: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad. Before the Civil War the most logical route for the planned transcontinenta…

Kenneth LaMaster talked about his book, U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth, and his research for the book at the archives. Opened in 1895, the U. S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, 25 miles north of…