Podcast Episodes

Culture During the Great Depression

Professor Carl Abrams talked about American culture during the Great Depression era. He described changes to family life, the role of religion, and t…

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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…

4 years, 2 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, …

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 3 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…

4 years, 3 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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4 years, 3 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…

4 years, 3 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…

4 years, 4 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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4 years, 4 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, 4 months ago