OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

Audio Lectures
Other online audio lectures can be found at TeachingAmericanHistory.org, a project of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University
Time period and Topic	Speaker, Title and Link to Audio Files	Other
Constitutional Period origins of constitutional principles	Caroline Cox, Department of History University of the Pacific “Seasons of Discontent: The Constitution in its Social and Cultural Context” 1:32:09 Listen to this lecture	Dates: November 19, 2002 & July 7, 2003 Readings & Links
Constitutional Period origins of constitutional principles	Jack Rakove Department of History and American Studies Stanford University “Declaring Rights” 2:03:24 Listen to this lecture	Date: June 9, 2003 Readings & Links
Early Republic democracy, immigration, and citizenship	Jon Gjerde, Department of History University of California, Berkeley American Democracy, Citizenship & Education 1:28:00 Listen to this lecture	Date: October 23, 2003 Readings & Links (See slides)
Early Republic race, power, and historical legagy	Clarence Walker, Department of History University of California, Davis “Alternative Parents, Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemmings: Rethinking the Racial Origins of the American Republic” 1:28:00 Listen to this lecture	Date: June 18, 2003 Links & Readings
Antebellum America slavery and abolitionism	David Henkin, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Opposing Slavery: The World of Antebellum Reform” 1:28:00 Listen to this lecture	Date: June 19, 2003 Readings & Links
Antebellum America slavery and abolitionism	Waldo Martin, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “The Confessions of Nat Turner Origins and Legacies”	Date: June 19, 2002 Readings & Sample Lesson
Jackson and Jacksonian Era	David Henkin, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Teaching About Jackson and Jacksonians” 1:28:00 Listen to this lecture	Date: October 30, 2003 Readings & Links
Industrialization the rise of unions	Charles Postel, Department of History Sacramento State University “Labor History and the Struggle for Democracy” 1:47:01 Listen to this lecture	Date: July 10, 2003 Readings & Links (See Slides_1) 3.6 mb (See slides_2) 3.3 mb
Depression Era social & cultural history	Lawrence Levine, Department of History George Mason University Man and Superman: Success, Individualism, and Institutions in Depression America Audio files coming soon	Date: April 27, 2004
World War II oral history	Richard Candida Smith Department of History University of California, Berkeley Using Oral History in Teaching” 1:32:45 Listen to this lecture	Date: June 17, 2003 Readings & Links
Vietnam presenting a public history	Chareles Wollenberg Department of History Vista College “Confessions of an Historical Consultant” 1:25:34 Listen to this lecture	Date: June 16, 2003 Readings & Links
Civil Rights Movement American social history - the integration of baseball	Jules Tygiel, Department of History San Francisco State University “Baseball as History: Jackie Robinson and the Civil Rights Struggle” 1:25:48 Listen to this lecture	Date: January 27, 2004 Readings & Links
Civil Rights Movement organizing in the South	Rachel Reinhard, Graduate Student University of California, Berkeley “Making Voting Rights a Reality in Mississippi” 1:25:48 Listen to this lecture	Date: July 11, 2003 Web Resource Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
History Education	Bill Scott, Graduate Student University of California, Berkeley "Historical Research and K-12 Teaching: Bridging the Gap.” 45:48 Listen to this lecture	Date: November 18, 2003