Teaching Underground Railroad History
Historians talked about some on the most common misconceptions about the Underground Railroad and imagine what it might have been like to escape from slavery. The scholars explored how to ma…
1,124 viewsHistorians talked about some on the most common misconceptions about the Underground Railroad and imagine what it might have been like to escape from slavery. The scholars explored how to ma…
1,124 viewsProfessor John Curatola talked about his book, Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow: The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-1950. Professor Cura…
1,001 viewsMark Hull gave an illustrated talk about the subsequent Nuremberg trials, focusing on the Einsatzgruppen trial. Beginning in September 1947, this eight-month proceeding tried 24 commanders o…
3,621 viewsJohn Ross talked about his book, Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed. Born in 1890, Eddie Rickenbacker was a well known racecar driver before he e…
1,475 viewsWalter Borneman talked about his book Rival Rails: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad. Before the Civil War the most logical route for the planned transcontinenta…
724 viewsAfter his grandfather’s death, Harry Truman worked on his family’s 2000 acre Missouri farm. In the 12 years he worked the farm before he left to serve during World War I, Truman proposed to …
309 viewsGregory Hospodor talked about the pre-Civil War life of Ulysses S. Grant, including his military education, character, and marriage. As a failed businessman who had resigned his Army commiss…
1,117 viewsBryan Le Beau talked about how although the facts of President Ulysses S. Grant’s life have not changed since his death in 1885, his image in the national memory has changed over the years a…
882 viewsKenneth LaMaster talked about his book, U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth, and his research for the book at the archives. Opened in 1895, the U. S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, 25 miles north of…
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