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Suffolk University professor Kathryn Lasdow taught a class on politics and culture in the United States from 1800 through the 1830s. She described how the country changed during the period…

Princeton University African American studies professor and native Alabaman Imani Perry provided a history of America through her travels in the South. The Palm Beach Book Festival in…

Atlantic staff writers Adam Harris (The State Must Provide) and Clint Smith (How the Word Is Passed) discussed their books on history and racial inequality. They spoke at the 2022 Annapolis Book…

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…

The Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher (Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth) and the American Enterprise Institute’s Ian Rowe (Agency ) discussed their books.…

Rev. Al Sharpton profiled lesser-known civil rights activists and how they impacted the movement. This was a virtual event hosted by the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

What do Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon have in common? They faced not just political opponents, but Americans who actually…

Mark Clague, a University of Michigan musicology and American culture professor, talked about the history of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” its widespread use at sporting events, and…

Author and Emory University professor Carol Anderson joined Book TV to talk and take calls about voting rights, gun regulation, and race in America. Her books include White Rage and The…

The Appalachian Trail stretches from Maine to Georgia. University of Michigan professor Philip D’Anieri provided a history of the construction of the trail, which is 2,200 miles long. This…

Jordan Tannenbaum, vice chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, talked about the following: his government agency’s work to preserve the country’s historic places and resources,…

Harriett Romo and William Dupont discussed the historical and cultural heritage of the Texas-Mexico borderlands. The San Antonio Book Festival hosted this event.

University of North Carolina, Charlotte history Professor Karen Cox discussed her book, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. She recounted the…

Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation executive director Christy Coleman talked with historian Joanne Freeman about her scholarship on Alexander Hamilton and violence in Congress during the 19th…

President Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making it now the 11th annual federal holiday and the first one established since the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Juneteenth,…

Former Baltimore Sun reporter John Bainbridge Jr., author of Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them, talked about the inventors who started Colt,…

Chuck Klosterman looked back at the social, political, and technological happenings of the nineties, marked by the growth of the internet. This was a virtual program hosted by Powell’s…

How have presidential historic sites, libraries and museums incorporated slavery and race into their exhibits and tours? Historians, curators and site directors shared their stories. The…

Experts with technology companies, museums, and historical sites discussed using digital tools to reach their audiences and improve learning experiences. The White House Historical…

How can historical knowledge be used to engage American citizens? Suggested answers came from a discussion with representatives of the Bill of Rights Institute, National History Day,…