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Morgan: American Financier

Art, Economics, World History

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Based on extensive research in newly opened archives, Morgan: American Financier , Jean Strouse’s portrait of J. P. Morgan, shows a man who helped transform the United States into an industrial nation, and amassed an extraordinary...

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Lincoln in Latin America

Government and Civics, World History

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Reform Cities: Chicago, Osaka, and Moscow

Economics, World History

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Europeans and the New World, 1400–1530

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

Brian DeLay, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses how the backwater of western Europe emerged from the devastation of the fourteenth century to generate the power, wealth, knowledge,...

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Calling the Constitutional Convention

Government and Civics

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Women and the Revolution

Government and Civics

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Myths of the American Revolution

Government and Civics

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Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, contrasts the popular memory of the Revolutionary War with its more complicated realities. She argues that although many of us were...

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Lincoln’s Family and Childhood

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America before Columbus

Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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Charles Mann’s book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (Knopf, 2005) won the US National Academy of Sciences’ 2006 Keck Award for the best book of the year. In this lecture he looks at new research on pre-Columbian...

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The Civil Rights Movement

Government and Civics

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The American West and the Great Depression

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics

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Abolitionist Views: Integration vs. Colonization

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Backlash Against the Fugitive Slave Act

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Abolitionism: A Grassroots Movement

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Many Lincolns: His Changing Image

Government and Civics

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The Fight over Slavery in the Revolutionary Era

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

Columbia University professor Christopher Brown, author of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (2006), examines the rise of anti-slavery thought during the Revolutionary era. Focusing on the often contrasting...

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Nature, Culture, and Native Americans

Geography, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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Daniel Wildcat is a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma and Director of the American Indian Studies Program at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. He discusses the importance of distinguishing between...

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The Global History of the Declaration of Independence

Government and Civics, World History

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The International Influence of the Declaration

Government and Civics

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In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery

World History

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of award-winning works that...

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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

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David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Freedom from Fear focuses primarily on political and economic developments, recounting how presidents and citizens responded to the two great...

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Severity of Economic Hardship During the Depression

Economics

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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Government and Civics

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Dred Scott and the Constitutionality of Slavery

Government and Civics

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A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

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Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

Art, Literature

An eminent Lincoln scholar, Douglas Wilson is the director emeritus of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. In Honor’s Voice, Professor Wilson draws on testimonies and recollections by Abraham Lincoln’s...

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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

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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

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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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