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SHORT SERIES: Baseball in the Gilded Age
Professor Joan Waugh talked about the rise of baseball as a national activity, spectator event, and business. She described the efforts of baseball c…
1 year, 5 months ago
SHORT SERIES: Baseball During the Depression
Pepperdine University professor Loretta Hunnicutt taught a class about baseball during the Great Depression. She looked at the role of baseball in Am…
1 year, 5 months ago
1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 2
University of Maryland history professor Michael discussed, in the second of a two part lecture, the 1893 trial of Lizzie Borden. She was accused of …
1 year, 5 months ago
1893 Lizzie Borden Trial, Part 1
University of Maryland history professor Michael Ross discussed the 1893 trial of Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her father and stepmoth…
1 year, 5 months ago
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"
Richard Brookhiser has written and edited for National Review magazine for over 50 years. He has also written books about George Washington, James Ma…
1 year, 6 months ago
FEED DROP: Booknotes+ Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"
In the first week of publication of Erik Larson's latest book, "The Demon of Unrest," sales put it at the very top of the bestseller list. It's about…
1 year, 6 months ago
FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"
In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allied leaders FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin were planning to meet secretly in Tehran. The Naz…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Great Depression
Indiana University history professor Carolina Ortega discussed the 1929 Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and the impact tha…
1 year, 6 months ago
Road to the 1787 Constitutional Convention
University of Dallas history professor William Atto discussed the decade leading to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the key compromises that l…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ryan White & the AIDS Epidemic
Florida State University history professor Paul Renfro discussed the life and death of Indiana teenager Ryan White, who emerged as one of the faces o…
1 year, 7 months ago