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National Book Award-winning author Kevin Boyle provided a social and political history of the United States during the 1960s. This was a virtual event hosted by the National Archives in…

Historian Iris De Rode talked about François-Jean de Chastellux, a French major general and cousin to the Marquis de Lafayette, who played a role in the Franco-American alliance during the…

Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre appeared at a hearing marking the centennial of the 1921 attack in which a white mob attacked residents, homes, and businesses in a predominantly Black Tulsa, Oklahoma,…

George Washington University professor Thomas Guglielmo gave the keynote address on racism during World War II at the Texas Christian University military history conference in Fort Worth,…

Virginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about the soldier experience during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, a Union attempt to capture the Confederate capitol of…

In his book, The Mistaken History of the Korean War, veteran Paul Edwards shared what he believes are some of the misconceptions about the war and how these misconceptions have affected Korean War veterans…

Historian Lorien Foote talked about how both sides during the Civil War accused the other of being uncivilized and employing retaliatory tactics. This virtual program was sponsored by the…

TIME Magazine former managing editor James Gaines profiled social and political activists of the 1950s, who he argued upends the notion that the decade was synonymous with conformity. This was…

Former U.S. Army Historian Kim Holien spoke about the impact that Generals George Patton and Erwin Rommel had on the June 6, 1944, D-Day operation. This event took place at the Lyceum in…

Norfolk State University professor Cassandra Newby-Alexander talked about African Americans in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia during the Civil War. She described how escaped slaves…

The U.S. Holocaust Museum held its annual remembrance ceremony honoring the Holocaust’s estimated 12 million victims. The program included a keynote address on combating antisemitism from…

Lynn University Professor Robert Watson discussed the Confederacy’s infamous Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, site of the largest jail break of the Civil War. The Andersonville National…

National Park Service Ranger Kate Marks Hardy talked about women living in the Chesapeake Bay region during the War of 1812. This virtual event was hosted by the Pride of Baltimore.

University of Maryland Eastern Shore history Professor Arlisha Norwood taught a class on the role Black women played during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. University of Maryland…

This 1962 U.S. Information Agency film produced by Hearst Metrotone News showed the situation before the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and the changes in the year…

Author Jeff Shesol talked about why President Kennedy placed his Cold War hopes, at the height of Soviet tensions, in astronaut John Glenn’s February 20, 1962, orbit of Earth aboard…

American History TV toured the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., with founding director Elizabeth Spalding. The museum is within sight of the White House, and is designed to…

University of Maryland professor Piotr Kosicki taught a class on the Cold War and the concept of the atomic apocalypse. The University of Maryland is located in College Park, Maryland.

Three former Vietnam War POWs appeared before a gathering of U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen to talk about their ordeal a half-century ago. The last of the American POWs returned from Vietnam…

Historian Ted Widmer traced Abraham Lincoln’s trip to Washington through a divided country before his first inauguration in 1861. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech…