1919 "Red Summer" and Racial Unrest
Journalist and author Cameron McWhirter and historian Saje Mathieu discussed what is known as the “Red Summer” of 1919, a months-long period of racial unrest and violence against African Ame…
1,514 viewsJournalist and author Cameron McWhirter and historian Saje Mathieu discussed what is known as the “Red Summer” of 1919, a months-long period of racial unrest and violence against African Ame…
1,514 viewsDavid Jackson talked about his book, Changing Times: Almanac and Digest of Kansas City’s LGBTQIA History. Mr. Jackson shared his personal history and talked about how the book chronicles ove…
251 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 Garrett Epps talked about the 1947 passage of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which limits the number of terms a president can serve. He explained what propelled the a…
1,571 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 viewsDouglas Charles talked about his book, Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, the FBI accumulated more than 330,000 pages on so-call…
1,676 viewsMarilyn Irvin Holt describes how the government became more involved in children’s lives during the second half of the 20th century by changing education requirements, regulating comic books…
304 viewsMelvin Goodman talked about the history of the relationship between the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since President Truman. Mr. Goodman spoke about how President Tr…
924 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…
1,473 viewsJon Taylor, author of Harry Truman’s Independence: The Center of the World, talked about President Truman’s life story and the importance of Truman’s Missouri hometown
470 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…
1,116 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…
881 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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