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How has Barack Obama conducted his post-presidency years, and what impact does he continue to have on national political conversations as well as on how his administration is remembered? The…

Jackson State University professor Pamela Banks and journalist Jill Lawrence discussed their experience living through school integration as a Black and white student in Long Island, New Yor…

University of Virginia Professor Kevin Gaines looked back to the Cold War era and explained how opponents of the civil rights movement associated it with communism and how similar methods ar…

University of Michigan history professor Kevin Gaines gave a lecture on the music of the civil rights and black power movement. Several song clips were featured during the class as well as s…

Historians reflected on the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, as it approached its tenth anniversary. The panelists placed the events in historical context and asked how a climate of f…

Historians spoke about war with Iraq, the potential impact of the war on the role of the U.S. in the world, the war in relation to prior conflicts, and the traditional goals of U.S. foreign …