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    Historically Black Colleges During WWII

    This 1943 Office of War Information film showed how historically black colleges contributed to the WW II effort by training scientists, doctors, nurses, and soldiers. It featured Tuskegee In…

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    On Great Fields

    Historian Ronald White talked about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, an unlikely Civil War General who became a hero of the 1863 Union victory in Gettysburg. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln…

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    Admirals Farragut and Nimitz

    Historian Craig Symonds talked about the similarities and differences in leadership between Civil War Admiral David Farragut and World War II-era Admiral Chester Nimitz. This event was part …

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    The 272

    Author Rachel Swarns talked about the 272 enslaved people who were sold by Jesuit priests in 1838 to benefit what is now Georgetown University. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.…

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    National Portrait Gallery 1898 Exhibit

    American History TV toured the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s “1898” exhibit -- which brings together portraits of the major players in the Spanish-American War, and illustrates the…

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    Washington's Marines

    Author and U.S. Marine Corps Major General Jason Bohm talked about the origins of the Marine Corps, including strategic decisions that shaped the formation of the Continental Marines in the …

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    Beaverland - How One Weird Rodent Made America

    Author Leila Philip described the role the beaver played in America’s environmental and cultural development. Barnes and Noble - Upper West Side in New York City hosted this conversation.

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    Black Life After Emancipation

    Historians Jake Friefeld, Brian Mitchell, and John Rodrigue talked about how the nation moved from the Emancipation Proclamation to the 13th Amendment and what life was like for African Amer…

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    The Wager

    Bestselling author David Grann talked about a mutiny aboard the British naval ship The Wager off the coast of South America in the mid-18th century and the court martial that followed. This …

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    Remembering the Civil War Dead

    Historians Allen Guelzo, Michelle Krowl, Dana Shoaf, Melissa Winn, and Jonathan White discussed soldiers and civilians who died in the Civil War. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln Forum h…

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    Life and Legacy of President Abraham Lincoln

    Pastimes Productions executive co-producers Doris Kearns Goodwin and Beth Laski talked about their recent miniseries on Abraham Lincoln’s life. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln Forum hel…

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    WWII Ghost Army Receives Congressional Gold Medal

    Bernard Bluestein, John Christman, and Seymour Nussenbaum, three of the seven surviving veterans of the WWII “Ghost Army,” were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony with milita…

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    The Deerfield Massacre

    Historian James Swanson recounted a Colonial-era massacre of American settlers living in Deerfield, Massachusetts, by hundreds of Native Americans and their French allies. Survivors of the 1…

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    Joy-Ann Reid on Her Book Medgar & Myrlie

    MSNBC host and political analyst Joy-Ann Reid discusses her book, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America.

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    Built from the Fire

    Journalist Victor Luckerson chronicled the rise and fall of Tulsa’s Greenwood District also known as “Black Wall Street” through the lens of the Goodwin family from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massa…

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    Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863

    Historian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangle…

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    Vietnam War POWs Tell Their Stories

    Three former Vietnam War POWs appeared before a gathering of U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen to talk about their ordeal a half-century ago. The last of the American POWs returned from Vietnam …

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    When Washington Burned

    Author Robert Watson talked about the War of 1812, detailing the British military campaign and American resistance on August 24, 1814, the day the British burned the Capitol. The U.S. Capito…

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    Faith and the American Soldier During World War II

    Florida State professor Kurt Piehler discussed how the U.S. military sought to meet the spiritual needs of the millions who served in uniform during World War II. The National World War II M…

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    Congress Investigates: KKK Violence During Reconstruction

    In 1871, a joint House-Senate committee investigated conditions in the southern states following a wave of violence against freed slaves and others.

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