Lectures in History

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George Washington's Character

Gene Allen Smith, a Texas Christian University history professor, taught a class about George Washington's character. He examined how the first president interacted with his contemporaries, how he viewed himself, and how he is remembered. 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