American History (Video)

Poet, novelist and Native American scholar N. Scott Momaday has spent decades bringing his culture and the landscape ali... Read more

On March 4th, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address. He considered it his “greatest spe... Read more

In this program, Emily Lin, with the UC Merced Library, explains the process of digging into archives, including a look ... Read more

The Kumeyaay are native inhabitants of San Diego and Imperial counties and Baja California, Mexico. For thousands of ye... Read more

Beginning in the 1950s, the United States embarked on an elaborate program to study how LSD might be used to alter the b... Read more

This lecture takes on the question of why we have only two political parties in the United States and how the two party ... Read more

“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” As look at the history of American democracy, ... Read more

Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation str... Read more

America’s pre-WWII anxieties, Depression-era economic disparity, and the potential for positive social movements arise i... Read more

UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful mom... Read more