- -: The Presidency: The Legacy and Influence of America's First Ladies
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The first of three Texas conferences on America's first ladies was held recently at the George Bush Presidential Library. The George W. Bush and Lyndon B. Johnson presidential libraries will host the next two conferences in 2012. Over the next hour and fifteen minutes, we'll hear about the evolv...
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- -: Lectures in History: Resistance by Enslaved Women
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)This week we join Virginia Tech History Professor Beverly Bunch-Lyons as she teaches a university class on women and slavery, and how they resisted. Professor Bunch-Lyons and her students read first-hand accounts from former slave women about their experiences. Virginia Tech is in Blacksburg, Vir...
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- -: The Civil War: Life in the Lincoln White House
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Author and presidential historian William Seale discusses life in the Lincoln White House -- and how the Lincoln family's presence there during wartime reinforced the idea of the White House as the President's official residence. From the Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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- -: The Presidency: White House Chefs
December 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Former White House chefs gathered at the National Archives to recall their time cooking for—and getting to know—first families dating back to the Carter years.
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- -: Lectures in History: American Abundance in the 1950s and '60s
December 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)This week we join Thomas Zeiler at the University of Colorado in Boulder for a class on American abundance and prosperity in the 1950s and early '60s. Mr. Zeiler has written about and teaches courses on American foreign relations, war and U.S. society, globalization, and baseball.
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