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Presentations by Historians
Other online audio lectures can be found at TeachingAmericanHistory.org, a project of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University
Time period & Topic	Speaker, Title and Link to Audio Files	Other
Native Americans Spanish settlements in Baja California & relations with Native American people	Albert Lacson University of California, Davis “Serra’s Invisible Allies: Baja California Indians, and the Settlement of California”	Dates: April 8, 2004 Readings & Links
Revolutionary Period conceptions of democracy and republicanism	Robin Einhorn, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Founding Documents”	Dates: June 18, 2002 & July, 2003 Readings & Links
Revolutionary Period	Robert Middlekauff University of California, Berkeley "Benjamin Franklin: Serious and Unserious"	Dates: June 15, 2004 Readings
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 and republicanism	Carlos Mujal, Department of History DeAnza College "Rights and Authority in the Early Republic”	Date: October 24, 2002 Synopsis & 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 Westward Expansion Indian Removal	Jennifer Spear, Department of History University of California, Berkeley "Beyond the Trail of Tears: The Resistance & Persistence of the Cherokees"	Date: November 7, 2002 Readings & Links
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
Civil War Era slavery, war, and its aftermath	Waldo Martin, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Teaching Frederick Douglass”	Date: February 21, 2002 Readings & Links
Reconstruction	Leon Litwack, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Letter from Jourdon Anderson: The Aftermath of Slavery”	Date: June 20, 2002 Readings & Links
African American History 19th & early 20th century	Shirley Moore, Department of Hisotry California State University, Sacramento “African American Women Confront the West” Audio files coming soon	Date: May 25, 2004 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
Progressive Period Women in the work force	Karen Sawislak, Department of History University of California, Berkeley "Wage-Earning Women: Teaching about Gender and Work in U.S. History" Audio files coming soon	Date: June 16, 2004 Readings & Links
Late 19th & Early 20th Century social movements	Candace S. Falk, Project Director Goldman Papers, UC Berkeley "Emma Goldman & Democracy in America"	Date: June 17, 2004 Readings & Links
Twentieth Century struggle for democracy	Alex Saragoza, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Democracy in America: Views Over Time from Women, the Poor, and Immigrants	Date: May 29, 2003
Turn of the Century foreign policy	Diane Clemens, Department of History University of California, Berkeley "Foreign Policy"	Date: June 24, 2002 Readings & Links
World War I the war at home	Charles Postel, Department of History Sacramento State University “The War at Home: Challenges to Freedom in the Great War”	Date: March 20, 2003 Readings & Links
Depression Era social & cultural history	Lawrence Levine, Department of History George Mason University Man and Superman: Success, Individualism, and Institutions in Depression America Listen to this lecture	Date: April 27, 2004 Readings & Links
World War II the war at home, race relations	Leon Litwack, Department of History University of California, Berkeley "Recent Research: African Americans During World War II"	Date: March 21, 2002 Links
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	Marcia Eymann, Curator of Historical Photography Oakland Museum of California “California & Vietnam: Doing Difficult History”	Dates: May 21, 2002 & May 20, 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
Robert Kennedy and The 60's	Joe Polermo, Sacramento State University "Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the Democratic Party"	Dates: June 14, 2004
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
Civil Rights Movement current issues	Leon Litwack, Department of History University of California, Berkeley "Sounds of Fury: From Civil Rights Movement to the Present"	Date: June 20, 2003 Readings & Links
Civil Rights Movement school integration	Waldo Martin, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Brown at 50: The Significance and Legacy of the Court Ruling”	Date: May 20, 2004 Readings & Links
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century multicultural history	Ron Takaki, Department of History University of California, Berkeley “Why Multiculturalism Matters: A Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century”	Date: December 19, 2002 Links
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
History Education	Robin Einhorn & David Henkin University of California, Berkeley Clarence Walker University of California, Davis "Panel Discussion: The Role of the Historian as Educator" Audio files coming soon	Date: June 18th, 2004 Audio files

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