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Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War
Brown University professor Megan Kate Nelson teaches a class about guerilla warfare, which is largely characterized by its tactics, including ambushe…
4 years, 11 months ago
Early Atlantic Exploration
Northeastern University professor William Fowler taught a class about early Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the Carib…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Promise of Suburbia
Johns Hopkins University professor Nathan Connolly teaches a class about the “promise of suburbia” after the civil rights movement. He explores the r…
4 years, 11 months ago
Donald Rumsfeld on the War on Terror
As a guest lecturer at the Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina in 2012, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gives a talk he c…
4 years, 11 months ago
Age & the American Revolution
We visit the James Madison University classroom of professor Rebecca Brannon as she teaches about the concept of age around the time of the Revolutio…
5 years ago
Mary Church Terrell & the Black "Mammy" Statue
University of Delaware professor Alison Parker teaches a class about activist Mary Church Terrell's 1923 fight against the United Daughters of the Co…
5 years ago
Native American & English Trade in Colonial Virginia
Virginia Tech professor Jessica Taylor teaches a class about trade relationships between English colonists and Native peoples in Virginia. She talks …
5 years ago
1970s American Car Culture & Film
University of Dayton professors John Heitmann and Todd Uhlman teach a class about 1970s American car culture and films of the era. Using examples lik…
5 years ago
1920s American South
Professor Alan Kraut lectured at American University on the economic progress made by the South during the 1920s as part of his history course on the…
5 years ago
1864 Presidential Election
Christopher Newport University professor Jonathan White teaches a class about the 1864 presidential election pitting incumbent Abraham Lincoln agains…
5 years, 1 month ago