Podcast Episodes

First Ladies in Their Own Words - Lady Bird Johnson

First Ladies from Lady Bird Johnson to Melania Trump talked about the role of the First Lady, their time in the White House, and the issues important…

3 years, 10 months ago

Cold War Educational Film

Professor Karen Rader talked about mid-20th century educational films used to teach students about nuclear warfare and science. During the Cold War, …

3 years, 10 months ago

Neutrality and World War I America

University of Minnesota Professor Saje Mathieu taught a class about “neutrality” and what that concept meant in World War I America. She explained ho…

3 years, 10 months ago

1960s African American Voter Registration

Emory University professor Carol Anderson taught a class about efforts in the early 1960s to register African American voters in Mississippi. She des…

3 years, 10 months ago

Watergate 50 Years Later

American University professor Joseph Campbell teaches a class about the 1972 Watergate scandal and, what he calls, “the myth of heroic journalism.”

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3 years, 11 months ago

Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"

Former Charleston, South Carolina Mayor Joseph Riley and professor Kerry Taylor co-teach a course at The Citadel military college looking at why a ne…

3 years, 11 months ago

Politics and Culture in Early America

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

3 years, 11 months ago

Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis

Penn State professor Rachel Shelden teaches a class on how the Civil War tested the limits of the U.S. Constitution.

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3 years, 11 months ago

Enlightenment Era in America

Messiah College professor John Fea teaches a class on the 18th-century enlightenment movement, which included natural rights, reason, and self-improv…

4 years ago

African American Women in Arts & Literature

St. Joseph’s University professor Katherine Sibley teaches a class about African American women who were writers and artists during the early Civil R…

4 years ago