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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.…

Jason Stacy and Matthew Ellington, co-authors of Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources, for the AP® US History Course, talked about the Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam. …

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.

Professors and researchers discussed new insights from research on the DNA of enslaved Africans American ironmakers at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland. This video was provided by Harvard’s Initia…

President Biden and Vice President Harris both spoke out against what the president called attempts to “bury history” during a ceremony to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Nat…

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…

History professor Jeffrey Ogbar looked at the history of Atlanta and how Blacks there transformed the city into today’s ‘Black Mecca.’ The Atlanta Center hosted this event.

Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman discussed his book, Charlie Chaplin vs. America," about the silent film star’s fallout with the U.S. government during the Red Scare.

Author Hannibal Johnson talked about the Tulsa Race Massacre and its impact on American history.

Historians discussed the American frontier, homesteading, and the concept of “Manifest Destiny.” The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians hosted this event as part of its symposium on th…

Author and journalist Neal Thompson recounts the first generation of Kennedys, Patrick, and Bridget, who immigrated to the United States from Ireland in the mid-19th century. Their son P.J. …

American University professor Pamela Nadell taught a class about the rise in anti-Semitism in America between World War I and II. She described the 1915 lynching of Jewish man Leo Frank in G…

Daniel Schulman talked about the German-Jewish immigrants who transformed American finance in the 19th century and into the 20th century - including the founders of Goldman Sachs and Lehman …

President Joe Biden delivered remarks at a White House reception in recognition of Black History Month. “Tonight, let’s reflect on how we make history, not erase history,” he said.

Betty Koed, a retired U.S. Senate historian, shared stories from her book Scenes, a collection of Senate history brief chronicles that she presented to senators during their Tuesday caucus l…

Librarian of Congress' Carla Hayden hosted a conversation marking President Harry Truman’s desegregation of the United States military with Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. Her guests …

Professor Fawn-Amber Montoya talked about the Ludlow coal miners' strike and massacre that took place in the early 20th century in Colorado. She follows the story of a few mining families, m…

Mattie Kahn talked about young girls who helped to ignite key social movements in American history such as 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for r…

In part one of Books That Shaped America, University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell explored Common Sense, a 1776 pamphlet authored by Thomas Paine that urged the American coloni…

Author Elizabeth Mitchell talked about her book, Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, in which she looks at the challenges faced by French sculptor Frederic A…