Lectures in History

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

State University of New York at Buffalo professor Carole Emberton teaches a class about Andersonville Prison, the Confederate Civil War military prison where 13,000 Union soldiers died, and the trial of its commander, Henry Wirz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Washington, Bothell, history professor Dan Berger examines the rise of mass incarceration in the United States and the politics behind it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Towson University history professor Elizabeth Gray talks about the use of and public opinion on opium and laudanum in the 19th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emory University professors Hank Klibanoff and Brett Gadsden talk about the intersection of Civil Rights politics and violence in mid-20th century Georgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Indiana University history professor Michael McGerr talks about women and feminism in 1960-70s popular music. This program contains language that some viewers may find offensive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices