Lectures in History

Loyola University Chicago professor Michelle Nickerson teaches a class on the deindustrialization of the U.S. in the 1970s and '80s and how music and popular culture of the period reflected these economic changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tulane University professor John "Ray" Proctor teaches a class about playwright August Wilson, his contribution to African American theatre and his Pulitzer prize-winning play, [Fences]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt teaches a class about anti-Semitism in America and Holocaust denial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Arkansas professor Elliott West lectures on the environmental impact of the California Gold Rush, part of a seminar for high school teachers hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Colorado Denver professor Sarah Fields teaches a class about the 1981 Jean Harris trial, also known as the "Scarsdale Diet" doctor murder case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colorado College professor Santiago Guerra teaches a class on marijuana regulation in U.S. History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Texas Christian University professor Gene Allen Smith teaches a class about George Washington's character. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stony Brook University professor Paul Kelton teaches a class about Abraham Lincoln and Native Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stevenson University professor Jamie Goodall teaches a class about female activists and the 1960s civil rights movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Slap of East Tennessee State University teaches a class on Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and the Constitution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karen Markoe of State University of New York Maritime College teaches a class on the 1920s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Texas at Austin professor Peniel Joseph teaches a class on the life & career of Civil Rights pioneer Ronald Walters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Utah professor Eric Hinderaker teaches a class about western settlement before, during and after the American Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Woods University professor Craig Bruce Smith teaches a class about the American Revolution and the Continental Army. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lafayette College professor Robert Weiner teaches a class on the origins of World War II in Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American University professor Ibram Kendi teaches a class about Malcolm X's views on Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Providence College professor Edward Andrews teaches a class on early English missions in Colonial America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dickinson College professor Jim Hoefler taught a class about end of life care and perceptions of death in the United States since the 1800s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Georgetown University professor Katherine Benton-Cohen teaches a class on the Progressive Era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Kennedy of Point Loma Nazarene University teaches a class about Mexico's governance and plans for California in the decades leading-up to the 1848 Mexican-American War, in which Mexico lost California to the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weber State University professor Branden Little teaches a class about the role of American factories during World War II and military vehicle innovations, with a focus on types of amphibious vehicles used in the Pacific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baylor University professor Julie Anne Sweet teaches a class on the American military during the Revolutionary War, including a look at the equipment and capabilities of both the Continental Army and militia troops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American University professor W. Joseph Campbell teaches a class on myths about William Randolph Hearst, Yellow Journalism & the lead-up to Spanish-American War at the end of the 19th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Georgetown University Professor Joseph McCartin teaches a class on the post-industrialization transformation of work starting in the 1960s and continuing through the end of the 20th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tulane University professor Karissa Haugeberg teaches a class about the legal history of abortion in the United States from the 1840s through 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Triton College professor Edward White teaches a class on lessons learned from the Vietnam War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Massachusetts Boston professor Vincent Cannato teaches a class about the culture and economics of the 1970s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Alabama professor Joshua Rothman teaches a class on abolition and pro-slavery movements in the early 1800s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Chicago professor Jane Dailey teaches a class about the 1968 presidential election, protests over the Vietnam War and issues during Richard Nixon's first term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Washington University adjunct professor Chris Tudda teaches a class about foreign relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during President Reagan's administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brooklyn College professor KC Johnson teaches a class on Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vassar College professor Rebecca Edwards teaches a class about the differences between 19th-century political parties and their views on gender roles, racial equality and family dynamics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stonehill College professor Peter Ubertaccio teaches a class on the history of State of the Union addresses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shepherd University Professor James Broomall teaches a class on the life and art of James Hope, an artist who both witnessed and painted scenes from the Battle of Antietam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Traci Parker talks about the lunch counter sit-ins that took place in the early 1960s as part of the civil rights movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kutztown University professor Michael Gabriel teaches a class about military engagements during the American Revolution from April 1775 to July 1776. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Texas Woman's University professor Katherine Landdeck teaches a class about the ways American women contributed to the war effort during World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, professor Michael Green teaches a class on Abraham Lincoln and the 1860 presidential election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Purdue University professor Kathryn Brownell teaches a class about political advertising in the 1950s, highlighting Dwight Eisenhower's presidential campaigns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kent State University professor Elaine Frantz teaches a class about the experience of being arrested from the 1850s to the present day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Michigan professor Melissa Borja teaches a class about Southeast Asian migration to the United States and post-Vietnam War refugees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Delaware professor Tiffany Gill teaches a class about the role of African American women in the Civil Rights Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rutgers University professor Jefferson Decker teaches a class on the history of the environmental movement and laws and litigation regarding natural resources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duke University professor Laura Edwards teaches a class on public lands and the law in the early American Republic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colorado College professor Amy Kohout teaches a class on nuclear weapons testing in the continental U.S. in the 1950s and '60s and how it impacted the environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lebanon Valley College professor James Broussard teaches a class on the lead-up to the American Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American University lecturer Aaron Bell teaches a class about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Middle Tennessee State University professor Ashley Riley Sousa teaches a class on Native Americans and capitalism in early 19th century California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Washington professor William Rorabaugh teaches a class on the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s in America. He compares the literature, clothing, music and world view of the beats and beatniks of the '50s and the hippies of the '60s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dartmouth College professor Colin Calloway leads a seminar for high school teachers on Native American history from the Colonial era through westward expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices