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Lectures in History

Series • 2025

Episode 14

Discussing Cold War refugees from Cuba and Vietnam and the impact of the Refugee Act of 1980.

President Biden Signs Juneteenth Federal Holiday Bill

Special • 2021

President Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.

Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

Special • 2021

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed recalls the announcement of the end of slavery on June 19, 1865.

Elaine Weiss, Spell Freedom

Special • 2025

Author Elaine Weiss traces the creation of underground schools in the Jim Crow-era South that helped prepare black students for voter registration literacy tests designed to disenfranchise them.

Lectures in History

Series • 2024

Episode 22

Lindsay Chervinsky discusses how presidential foreign policy and warmaking powers evolved.

Lectures in History

Series • 2024

Episode 17

The civil rights movement at historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina.

Slavery & the Declaration of Independence

Special • 2025

The American Enterprise Institute hosts a conversation about slavery and the American Revolution.

David Greenberg, John Lewis — A Life

Special • 2024

Coverage of the 2024 Southern Festival of Books with author discussions on John Lewis and more.

African American Reaction to Lincoln’s Death

Special • 2025

Historians discuss the life and times of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era.

Negro Cloth & Enslaved People

Special • 2025

Professor Jonathan Square discusses Lowell Cloth, which was produced in Lowell, Mass.

Antonia Hylton, Madness – Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Special • 2024

Antonia Hylton looks at a segregated asylum and the role of race and mental health treatment.