Origins Of Civil War Lec 01

Presidential Leadership Lec 04

Presidential Leadership Lec 01

World War I Lec 07c

World War I Lec 03a

World War I Lec 02a

World War I Lec 01a

Historian John Demos on magical thinking in the colonial era.

The Colonial Cosmos

Jill Lepore on how America's deadliest war helped create American Identity.

What was King Philip's War?

Historian Joyce Appleby on the first generation of Americans coming of age after the Revolution. Image: "President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House in 1829," Robert Cruikshank, 1841. (Library of Congress)

ICLA's Joyce Appleby on The First Generation of Americans

Historian Joyce Appleby on the political nature of dueling in early America.

Historian Joyce Appleby on The Politics of Dueling

UCLA's Joyce Appleby on The New World of Work

Image: "Funeral obsequies of free-trade," H.R. Robinson, 1846. Library of Congress

Univ. of Virginia's Michael Holt on the Abominable Tariff

Historian Michael F. Holt on the rise and fall of the American Whig Party.

Who Were the Whigs?

John Fea of Messiah College explains the workings of mercantilism.

What was the mercantile system? John Fea, Messiah College

Brian DeLay of the University of California details Spanish colonial labor systems. 

What was encomienda? Brian DeLay, Univ. of California

Brian DeLay of the University of California details the exchange of people, animals, plants and diseases that came about after European contact with the New World.

What is the Columbian Exchange? Brian DeLay, Univ. of California

Warfare In Early America Lec 01

Historian Gordon Wood on how the founding fathers tried to avoid war through economic sanctions in part in fear that the executive would gain too much power during wartime.

Gordon Wood on War and Executive Authority

Jim Crow And Its Challengers Lec 01

Four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, which caused 50,000 casualties—President Lincoln was invited to speak at the dedication of a national cemetery at the site.

Gettysburg Address

An excerpt from the diary of William Woodlin of the 8th U.S. Colored Troops.

A Black Soldier's Civil War Diary

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African American History to Emancipation Lec 01

African American History to Emancipation Lecture 02

African American History to Emancipation Lec 03

African American History to Emancipation Lec 04

African American History to Emancipation Lec 05

African American History to Emancipation Lec 06

African American History to Emancipation Lec 07

African American History to Emancipation Lec 08

African American History to Emancipation Lec 09

African American History to Emancipation Lec 10

African American History to Emancipation Lec 11

African American History to Emancipation Lec 12

America The Beautiful

In 1917 Cleveland Gaillard wrote to The Chicago Defender for aide in migrating to the North. 

Cleveland Gaillard, 1917

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