Podcast Episodes

FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

Sir Richard J. Evans has been writing about Germany and Adolf Hitler for his entire professional life. He was knighted in Britain in 2012 for his service to scholarship. From 2003-2008, Professor Eva…

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James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution

Professor James Broussard taught a class on the lead-up to the American Revolution. He described actions by the British government, such as the Stamp Act and stationing British troops in Boston, that…

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Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution

University of Utah Professor Eric Hinderaker taught a class about western settlement before, during and after the American Revolution. Using the Kentucky territory as an example, he described the con…

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Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Benedict Arnold

Law professor and author Joyce Lee Malcolm discussed Benedict Arnold's triumphs as an American army general in the Revolutionary War and questioned whether his legacy as a notorious American traitor …

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Garrett Graff, "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky"

Historian Garrett Graff discusses his oral history of the development, testing and deployment of the atomic bomb in August 1945.

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George Washington's Character

Gene Allen Smith, a Texas Christian University history professor, taught a class about George Washington's character. He examined how the first president interacted with his contemporaries, how he vi…

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Colonial Tensions Pre-Revolution

Ithaca College professor Michael Trotti discussed the escalating tensions between colonists and the British government before the American Revolution. Ithaca College is located in New York.

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1607 Jamestown Settlement

College of William & Mary lecturer Amy Stallings discussed the history of the 1607 Jamestown fort and settlement in Virginia, and how Americans have tried to preserve and remember the first permanent…

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Army Explorers of the West

Texas Woman's University history professor Cecily Zander discussed the federal government's efforts to explore and control the American west from the early 1800's through the Civil War. Texas Woman's…

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Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War

Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart taught a class on the development of weapons technology in the American Revolution. Wright State University is located in Dayton, Ohio.

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