Lectures in History

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SHORT SERIES: Women Journalists at the Turn of the 20th Century

Iowa State University professor Tracy Lucht talked about women journalists in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. She described the careers of some pioneers, such as Nellie Bly and Dorothy Dix, and the societal pressures for women writers to balance traditional femininity and a career in journalism.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WW…

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  FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

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  Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Doubl…

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  The 1967 Six-Day War and America’s Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process

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  FEED DROP: ABC David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hid…

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  The Mexican-American War: Causes, Consequences, and Legacy

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  How Constitutional Order Emerged From Crisis

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  Gettysburg College’s Timothy Shannon on the Mystery of Roanoke

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  The 1876 Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

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  World War II History: Vichy France Collaboration and the U.S.-UK Alliance

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  Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War

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  Black Education in Colonial America: The Story of the Williamsburg Bray Sc…

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  Lectures in History: 1992 Republican National Convention

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  FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

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  James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution

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  Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution