Lectures in History
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Lectures in History

by C-SPAN

Go back to school with the country's top professors lecturing on a variety of topics in American history. New episodes posted every Saturday evening. From C-SPAN, the network that brings you "After Words" and "C-SPAN's The Weekly" podcasts.

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1
FEED DROP: BN+ David Sirota "Master Plan"
1:10:49 Mar 15, 2026
2
Hawaiian History and Culture
39:53 Mar 8, 2026
3
Supreme Court Cases and Privacy
51:34 Mar 1, 2026
4
The Spanish-American War
1:10:54 Feb 21, 2026
5
Reaganomics
53:43 Feb 15, 2026
6
Marion Orr "House of Diggs"
1:22:20 Feb 8, 2026
7
The History of the Space Program
1:33:47 Feb 2, 2026
8
Williamsburg Revolutionary War Encampment
1:17:26 Jan 25, 2026
9
How Martin Luther King Jr. Used Political Strategy
1:17:20 Jan 18, 2026
10
Blake Gilpin on Reconstruction-Era Supreme Court Cases That Led to Jim Crow Segregation
1:04:17 Jan 11, 2026
11
Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War
55:15 Jan 5, 2026
12
FEED DROP: America 250 Battle of Bunker Hill Commemoration
1:24:02 Dec 28, 2025
13
The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy
1:08:47 Dec 21, 2025
14
Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production
1:16:29 Dec 14, 2025
15
How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WWII Mobilization
50:23 Dec 7, 2025
16
FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts
1:03:38 Nov 30, 2025
17
Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life
1:07:38 Nov 23, 2025
18
The 1967 Six-Day War and America’s Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
1:15:59 Nov 16, 2025
19
FEED DROP: ABC David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hidden History
1:02:14 Nov 8, 2025
20
The Mexican-American War: Causes, Consequences, and Legacy
1:20:41 Nov 1, 2025
21
How Constitutional Order Emerged From Crisis
57:33 Oct 26, 2025
22
Gettysburg College’s Timothy Shannon on the Mystery of Roanoke
1:14:22 Oct 19, 2025
23
The 1876 Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1:21:53 Oct 12, 2025
24
World War II History: Vichy France Collaboration and the U.S.-UK Alliance
47:30 Oct 5, 2025
25
Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War
55:15 Sep 28, 2025
26
Black Education in Colonial America: The Story of the Williamsburg Bray School
1:36:18 Sep 21, 2025
27
Lectures in History: 1992 Republican National Convention
59:47 Sep 14, 2025
28
FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"
1:02:55 Sep 7, 2025
29
James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution
1:10:38 Aug 31, 2025
30
Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution
1:20:59 Aug 24, 2025
31
Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Benedict Arnold
1:09:22 Aug 17, 2025
32
Garrett Graff, "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky"
1:13:47 Aug 10, 2025
33
George Washington's Character
1:00:33 Aug 3, 2025
34
Colonial Tensions Pre-Revolution
1:03:15 Jul 27, 2025
35
1607 Jamestown Settlement
1:04:48 Jul 20, 2025
36
Army Explorers of the West
1:21:46 Jul 13, 2025
37
Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War
1:19:11 Jul 6, 2025
38
Gilded Age Bohemians
1:20:54 Jun 29, 2025
39
World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii
59:10 Jun 22, 2025
40
America's National Pastime
1:09:18 Jun 15, 2025
41
Christian Nightlife in the 1970s
1:31:30 Jun 8, 2025
42
Islam & Judaism in American History
1:13:05 May 31, 2025
43
Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War
1:08:12 May 25, 2025
44
Ronald Reagan & the 1980s Conservative Resurgence
1:20:38 May 18, 2025
45
Native Americans & the American Revolution
46:38 May 11, 2025
46
FEED DROP: BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"
1:09:07 May 4, 2025
47
Winston Churchill, the Special Relationship and the Cold War
1:17:30 Apr 27, 2025
48
Cold War Refugees & the 1980 Refugee Act
1:13:11 Apr 20, 2025
49
World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii
58:53 Apr 13, 2025
50
"The Education of Henry Adams" (1918)
1:22:36 Apr 6, 2025
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