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The Three Constitutions

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

During this session, Professor Cornell will look at the three distinct phases of the Constitution as an overview. The first is the Constitution in the 18 th century as imagined by the Founding Fathers. The Constitution went through...

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The Effects of the Civil War on the South

Economics, Government and Civics

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Monuments and Memorials: The South in American History

Edward L. Ayers speaks about the idea of memory and its relationship to American history.

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War between Neighbors: The Coming of the Civil War

Government and Civics

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Edward L. Ayers is Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia where he is also the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History. Here he looks at the Civil War’s impact on the lives of people in...

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Defining the Twentieth Century

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Government and Civics

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Reconstruction and Citizenship

Government and Civics

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The Changing Views of Reconstruction

Government and Civics

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1866: The Birth of Civil Rights

Government and Civics

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Reconstruction and Its Legacy

Government and Civics

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The Politics of Reconstruction

Government and Civics

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Jefferson as Revolutionary

Government and Civics

Frank Cogliano, professor of American history at the University of Edinburgh, discusses Thomas Jefferson's legacy as it relates to the American Revolution, and looks at how Jefferson himself wished to be remembered--as the author of...

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The Civil War in American Memory

Government and Civics, Literature

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Why the Union Won

Government and Civics

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The "Lost Cause"

Government and Civics

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The American Fascination with the Civil War

Government and Civics

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The Progressive Era

Government and Civics

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Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Glenda Gilmore is Assistant Professor of American History at Yale University. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 records political and social change in North Carolina from the...

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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic

Government and Civics

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Washington’s Most Significant Act

Government and Civics

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Washington as Symbol of the Founding Era

Government and Civics

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The Significance of the American Revolution

Government and Civics

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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Government and Civics

Gordon Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the author of The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Wood presents an unusual portrait of this celebrated American folk hero, tracing...

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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Government and Civics

H. W. Brands, Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Government at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his book, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000). He argues that Franklin...

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The European Image of Lincoln

Government and Civics, World History

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

Catherine Clinton, professor of US history at Queen’s University Belfast, has wrtten or edited more than twenty historical books for both children and adults, including The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South and I,...

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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

Government and Civics

Allen C. Guelzo, Grace F. Kea Professor of American History at Eastern College, examines the sources, language, and impact of the Emancipation Proclamation, concluding that it was the last and best example in nineteenth-century...

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African American Lives: An Overview

Government and Civics

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of African American History at Harvard University, speaks about the development of the African American National Biography,...

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America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Part 2

Government and Civics

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America at the End of the 20th Century, Part 1

Government and Civics

James T. Patterson, Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University, discusses his book Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. He looks at the United States during the final quarter of the twentieth century...

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Runaway Slaves

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The African Slave Trade, 1500–1800

World History

Historian Philip D. Morgan, Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, explores the core experiences of slavery itself, including life on the African coast and on sugar plantations in the New World. ...

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Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War

Government and Civics, World History

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Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York

Government and Civics

Historian Richard Ketchum is the author of the classic studies Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill ; The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton ; and Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War . In...

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Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War

Government and Civics

David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Houston, chose 360 original documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The authors have woven these...

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American Legal History: Colonial Era to 1800

Government and Civics

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In Hope of Liberty: Northern Free Blacks, 1700–1860

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The Real Treason of Aaron Burr

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In 1807, Aaron Burr was tried and acquitted on charges of treason for his "adventures" in the American West, but he had fallen out of favor in American life long before, after he had run for president against Thomas Jefferson, served...

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Federalism: Pros and Cons

Government and Civics

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Teaching the Constitution

Government and Civics

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Defining the Constitution

Government and Civics

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Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Journey

Government and Civics

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Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 2: Grant

Government and Civics

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Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 3: Marshall

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

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Slavery and the Early American Economy

Economics, Government and Civics

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Guns, Horses, and the Grass Revolution

Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In this lecture Elliott West, a professor of history at the University of Arkansas, describes how the introduction of Old World phenomena such as guns, horses, and new diseases affected the Native peoples of the New World. Those who...

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African American Abolitionists

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

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Great Biographies: African American Athletes

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Early American Slave Culture

Government and Civics, World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In this lecture, historian Philip D. Morgan compares the Lowcountry and Chesapeake slave cultures and reveals much about the way of life of some of the earliest African Americans. Although South Carolina in the eighteenth century was...

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The Origins of the Vietnam War

Government and Civics, World History

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