Lectures in History

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

William & Mary Bray School Lab director Maureen Elgersman Lee discusses the history of the 18th-century Williamsburg Bray School for Black children and the legacies of the 300 to 400 scholars it enrolled. 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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  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