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Books That Shaped America explored Common Sense, a 1776 pamphlet authored by Thomas Paine that urged the American colonies to declare independence from Great Britain. Books That Shaped…

Professor Fawn-Amber Montoya talked about the Ludlow coal miners' strike and massacre that took place in the early 20th century in Colorado. She follows the story of a few mining families,…

Mattie Kahn talked about young girls who helped to ignite key social movements in American history such as 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for…

John Steele Gordon, author of An Empire of Wealth, gave a talk at Hillsdale College on socialism in American history. He argued that while there have been experiments in socialism, it will…

Professor Stephen Berry talked about coroners in the 19th century South. He discussed the role of a coroner as an agent of the state and talked about the records created from coroner…

Former Wall Street Journal reporter Neil King discusses his book “American Ramble” - about his nearly 300 mile walk from Washington, DC, to New York City - with radio host Bill Press.

Historians looked back at the year 1862 and discussed Native Americans and the American West, including the U.S-Dakota Wars and the Sand Creek Massacre. This program was part of the…

Librarian of Congress' Carla Hayden hosted a conversation marking President Harry Truman’s desegregation of the United States military with Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. Her guests…

Elizabeth Cobbs talked about the history of women’s rights through the stories of different women from the colonial era to the 21st century. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington,…

Professor Maria Cristina Garcia talked about the United States' refugee policy since World War II. She spoke about qualifications to be a refugee and how those have changed as well as…

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,…

Historian Winifred Gallagher examined the role that women played in America’s westward expansion. This was a virtual event hosted by Smithsonian Associates.

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…

University of Arkansas professor emeritus Elliott West talked about America’s expansion westward from the 1840s to the end of the 19th century. He described how through rails, telegraph…

Author John Leshy discussed key early political decisions that helped create American public lands policy, resulting in the more than 600 million acres of forests, plains, mountains, wetlands,…

Historian Rachel Louise Martin, author of A Most Tolerant Little Town, talked about the experiences of the students in Tennessee who desegregated the first school in the south following…

President Biden and Vice President Harris both spoke out against what the president called attempts to “bury history” during a ceremony to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley…

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Carl Smith, professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, talked about the 1871 fire that destroyed over three square miles of the city of Chicago. This event was part of…