Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Civil Rights
University of South Carolina professor Patricia Sullivan taught a class about the 1960s Civil Rights movement and the…
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Presidential Succession Act of 1947
Harry Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 after Franklin Roosevelt’s death elevated him to the…
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Supreme Court Justices on Roe v. Wade
American History TV looked back to see what the 9 justices who currently sit on the Supreme Court had to say about…
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The Children and the Bear
This animated anti-communist film tells the story of a bear, representing the Soviet Union. The bear eats children, who…
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Underwriters of the United States
Historian Hannah Farber described the role of American maritime insurers during the American Revolution through the…
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Ways and Means
Author Roger Lowenstein talked about how Abraham Lincoln and his secretary of Treasury Salmon Chase worked together to…
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Sweet Taste of Liberty
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caleb McDaniel told the story of Henrietta Wood, an enslaved woman who survived slavery…
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Thirteen Clocks
Author Robert Parkinson argued that the leaders of the American Revolution motivated colonists to join their cause…
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Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
University of Pennsylvania political science professor Adolph Reed provided a history of the Jim Crow era through the…
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Reclamation
A Black descendent of Thomas Jefferson and employee at Monticello, author Gayle Jessup White examined the legacies of her…
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