Multimedia

The Sixties

These videos and podcasts by eminent scholars, master teachers, and other speakers open a variety of ways to explore American history. The presentations range from two- or three-minute interview clips to hour-long lectures. Whether you watch them in class, assign them to your students for homework, or download them to your iPod for a long road trip, each one can give you new insight into the past.

Political and Social Legacies of the Sixties

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds

Religion vs. Spirituality in 1960s America

Speaker(s): Michael Kazin Duration: 0 seconds

The Changing Face of the Supreme Court in American History

Speaker(s): A.E. Dick Howard Duration: 0 seconds

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Speaker(s): Sergei Khrushchev Duration: 0 seconds

The Origins of the Vietnam War

Speaker(s): John Prados Duration: 0 seconds

Multimedia from Other Sub-Eras

America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Part 2

Speaker(s): James Patterson Duration: 0 seconds

Brown v. Board of Education and Its Effect on Civil Rights

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

Defining the Twentieth Century

Speaker(s): Edward L. Ayers Duration: 0 seconds

Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974

Speaker(s): James Patterson Duration: 0 seconds

Great Biographies: African American Athletes

Speaker(s): Henry Louis Gates Jr. Duration: 0 seconds

How did war shape the twentieth century?

Speaker(s): Jennifer Keene Duration: 0 seconds

Introduction to Supreme Court Controversies throughout History

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

Speaker(s): Anthony J. Badger Duration: 0 seconds

Monuments and Memorials: The South in American History

Speaker(s): Edward L. Ayers Duration: 0 seconds

Nixon, Executive Power, and the Constitution

Speaker(s): R. B. Bernstein Duration: 0 seconds

Non-Violent Methods of Protest

Speaker(s): Anthony J. Badger Duration: 0 seconds

Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II

Speaker(s): Joseph W. Trotter Duration: 0 seconds

The Origins of the Cold War

Speaker(s): John Lewis Gaddis Duration: 0 seconds

What are the legacies of the civil rights movement?

Speaker(s): Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Duration: 0 seconds