Historians on the Record: Podcasts from the Gilder Lehrman Institute
Since 1996, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has presented eminent historians discussing major topics in American history. Now you can hear these lectures on your computer or on a portable media player. Our archive of more than eighty podcasts is available for free, simply by registering and signing in below.
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- War Between Neighbors: The Coming of the Civil War: Edward Ayers
- Myths of the American Revolution: Carol Berkin
- The End of the Cold War: Thomas Blanton
- Salem Witchcraft Trials: Mary Beth Norton
- The Great Depression and WWII: David M. Kennedy
- The Significance of Reconstruction: Eric Foner
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin: Gordon Wood
- King Philip's War: Jill Lepore
- Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: James McPherson
- The Emancipation Proclamation: Allen Guelzo
- John Brown, Abolitionist: David Reynolds
- Washington's Crossing: David Hackett Fischer
- The Civil War: David Blight
- The American Dream: Andrew Delbanco
- Lincoln at Peoria: Lewis Lehrman
The Founding Era
- The Post-Revolutionary Generation: Joyce Appleby
- Anti-Slavery Literature: James G. Basker
- Myths of the American Revolution: Carol Berkin
- Slavery in America: Ira Berlin
- Alexander Hamilton, American: Richard Brookhiser
- Anti-Slavery in the Revolutionary Era: Christopher L. Brown
- American Ways of War, Part 1: Josiah Bunting III
- Jefferson as Revolutionary: Frank Cogliano
- Religion and Witchcraft in Colonial America: John Demos
- The Character of Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J. Ellis
- His Excellency: George Washington: Joseph Ellis
- Washington's Crossing: David Hackett Fischer
- The Supreme Court and Religious Freedom: A.E. Dick Howard
- Benjamin Franklin: Walter Isaacson
- American Legal History: Colonial Era to 1800: Larry Kramer
- Madison and the Constitution: Larry Kramer
- King Philip's War: Jill Lepore
- America Before Columbus : Charles C. Mann
- Early American Slave Culture: Philip D. Morgan
- The African Slave Trade, 1500-1800: Philip Morgan
- Salem Witchcraft Trials: Mary Beth Norton
- Jefferson and the Constitution: Peter S. Onuf
- Freedom of Religion: A Radical Innovation: Jack Rakove
- Establishing an Independent Judiciary in the Founding Era: Jack Rakove
- Guns, Horses, and the Grass Revolution: Elliott West
- Redeeming Martin Van Buren: Ted Widmer
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin: Gordon Wood
- The Real Treason of Aaron Burr: Gordon Wood
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic: Gordon Wood
Civil War
- Slavery and the Early American Economy: Edward Ayers
- War Between Neighbors: The Coming of the Civil War: Edward Ayers
- The Civil War: David Blight
- Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest: James F. Brooks
- American Ways of War, Part 2: Josiah Bunting III
- Harriet Tubman: Catherine Clinton
- The Significance of Reconstruction: Eric Foner
- Reconstruction and Citizenship: Eric Foner
- The Civil War in American Memory: Gary Gallagher
- A Bondwoman's Narrative: Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- African American Abolitionists : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- Dred Scott and the Constitutionality of Slavery: Larry Kramer
- The Slaughterhouse Cases: Larry Kramer
- War, Slavery, and Emancipation: Stephanie McCurry
- Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: James McPherson
- John Brown, Abolitionist: David Reynolds
- Politics in the Civil War North: Adam I.P. Smith
Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln in Germany and Italy: Eugenio Biagini
- Lincoln and the American South: David Blight
- A Man for All Seasons: Lincoln in Spain: Carolyn Boyd
- Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life: Richard Carwardine
- Lincoln's Religion: Richard Carwardine
- Lincoln's Horizons: The Nationalist as Internationalist: Richard Carwardine
- Comments on Lincoln Lectures: Patricia Clavin
- Lincoln's Family and Childhood: Catherine Clinton
- Many Lincolns: His Changing Image: Andrew Delbanco
- Lincoln and the Rights of Black Americans: Eric Foner
- Lincoln’s Influence in Africa: Kevin Gaines
- Lincoln and Britain in the 1860s : Lawrence Goldman
- The Emancipation Proclamation: Allen Guelzo
- Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Journey: Harold Holzer
- Lincoln’s Influence in Ireland: Kevin Kenny
- Lincoln at Peoria: Lewis Lehrman
- Lincoln and Race: James Oakes
- Global Lincoln Panel Discussion: Richard Blackett, Jorg Nagler, Peter Onuf
- Lincoln and Black Abolitionists: Manisha Sinha
- Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy: Sean Wilentz
Early 20th Century
- FDR's First 100 Days: Jonathan Alter and Alan Brinkley
- Defining the Twentieth Century: Edward Ayers
- The American Dream: Andrew Delbanco
- The Progressive Era : Gary Gerstle
- Creation of the Modern City: Kenneth Jackson
- America Between the Wars, 1917-1940, pt. 2: Michael Kazin
- America Between the Wars, 1917-1940, pt. 1: Michael Kazin
- The Great Depression and WWII: David M. Kennedy
- Lochner v. New York : Larry Kramer
- Changes to Supreme Court Doctrine in the 1930s : Larry Kramer
- The Rise and Fall of Federal Power from the 1800s to the 1930s: Larry Kramer
- Parks and Politics: A Look at Federal Land: Patricia Limerick
- Theodore Roosevelt After the White House: Patricia O'Toole
- The Supreme Court and the Politics of Race: Jack Rakove
- A Life in the 20th Century: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
- J.P. Morgan: Jean Strouse
- The American West in the 20th Century: Richard White
- Nature, Culture, and Native Americans: Daniel Wildcat
1945 - present
- FDR's First 100 Days . . . and Obama's: Anthony J. Badger
- American History and the World: Thomas Bender
- The End of the Cold War: Thomas Blanton
- American Ways of War, Part 3: Josiah Bunting III
- The US, the Middle East, and the Cold War: Malcolm Byrne
- Political and Social Legacies of the Sixties : Michael Flamm
- The Origins of the Cold War: John Lewis Gaddis
- African American Lives: An Overview: Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- African American Athletes in History: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The Changing Face of the Supreme Court in American History: A.E. Dick Howard
- Religion vs. Spirituality in 1960s America : Michael Kazin
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Sergei Khrushchev
- Supreme Court Controversies Throughout History: Larry Kramer
- The Legal Battle for Racial Equality, 1787 - 1954: Larry Kramer
- Brown v. Board of Education and Its Effect on Civil Rights: Larry Kramer
- National Security, Individual Rights and the Law: A Panel Discussion
- The Idea of Freedom in America: Key Moments: Orlando Patterson
- America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Pt. 1: James T. Patterson
- America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Pt. 2: James T. Patterson
- The Origins of the Vietnam War: John Prados
- The Civil Rights Movement: Clarence Taylor
