I like the topics but uploads could improve on selecting which classes to upload from. The New Deal episode for example is not the best to be presenting such an important topic. Certainly there’s better lecturers from which to choose some of these topics. Also sound quality in certain lectures is poor and could be more consistent I feel like a simple editing program would fix that .the MaGas who are crying about “different perspectives” are just learning how disgusting their politics is & im all for it. Maybe they’ll learn that their fascists in one of these.

I was so interested in the history of abortion. But once the female lecturer stopped saying “pregnant women”, and started referring to them as “pregnant people”, I know I had to stop listening to the delusional and historical “professor”. Brain washing 101

So many of them sound like they wrote a 75 minute lecture but they only have 60 minutes to deliver it. Slow down!!

Excellent review of Mamie Till Mobley - Remembering Emmett Till! Great behind the scenes stories.

Would be fascinating to hear lectures from all political spectrums rather than just one.

Sad to see our students only getting a one sided view of history. I used to enjoy these even if I had a different perspective. Please bring in some more conservative voices to balance.

Content is good but has a clear slant that at times becomes excessive - I can watch CNN if I want a totally leftist view of history. Particularly the cult lecture. As a psychologist I worked those events without agenda - the Professor clearly did not. Reading and philosophizing second hand is easy - we can all bat a 1000 as a Monday morning analyst, but to contemplate more fully all factors at play during real world events would trump the arm chair quarterbacking. A more centered apolitical approach would greatly broaden the learning.

The content is solid, and the topic extremely important and interesting. However, the lecture would be so much better without the constant insertion of the word. “Right” it’s equivalent to a teenager constantly saying the word like it’s far more interesting without the constant insertion, which is distracting a bibliography would be very useful as well. very interesting topic nonetheless.

Slant it till it becomes truth in the minds of the woke sheep. Propaganda so thick you gotta wear hip boots.

Awful listening to this lady yammer on about how the lands existed and were populated prior to creation of the national parks. I’m not sure how her lecture ties into any type of history of the national parks. It’s sad to listen to people who have an obvious biased and stained perspective on American history.

Insightful and interesting!

This was once a fantastic series, but now is a set of lectures curated by a collegiate diversity and inclusion department. Do yourself a favor and read the source material without the ridiculous modern-day unnecessary political propaganda.

I like the podcast. I do have a suggestion: Please include bibliographic sources in every lecture. It’ll be helpful for those who want to further research a particular topic of interest.

More interested in providing woke history than factual history. Garbage.

I love listening to various professors and their well thought out talks on their subjects.

Deeply disappointed in CSpan Lectures for elevating Roosevelt’ book tour. One can challenge the merits of originalism and the Founding, but KR’s effort of papering over his political takes with a strained view of history was amateurish. I suspect the only reason he gets even this platform is due to his privilege and last name. He neglected to address a crucial student question about the religious foundation for natural rights which is clear in the Dec of Indep & Locke’s Second Treatise which largely inspired the language . He neglected to reconcile his book-selling reasoning with the voices he claimed to be on the side of. Lincoln’s defense of the Constitution in his Cooper Union address and Frederick Douglass’s 4 of July oration both endorse the Constitution as a freedom document. Do better CSpan. We need institutions like you to promote better, more competent voices.

You have several episodes related to race and gender that have seriously mischaracterized the facts. I think this is why people are so upset with CRT stuff. Some of the things these people are saying just aren't correct nor accurate. I know they want to reshape peoples understanding of these topics and issues but doing it this way only creates the same situation we were in before only from the other direction. This will not lead to correction nor “equality” nor “equity” or whatever terms people are using this year. It won’t happen because those ideas are wrong and will just get buried like all the other nonsense that gets published century after century.

This is the Howard Zinn version of American history. There are about a 100 other history podcast that are more balanced and much more interesting. Avoid this one. It is shrill and very biased.

There are certainly a lot of bad Civil War historians out there-Earl Hess and Mark Neely particularly-but Steven Woodworth is not too far behind. See his criticism in While God Is Marching On of one the best books ever written on the soldier experience and the horrors of combat during the war, Gerald Linderman’s Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. Linderman’s thesis is also much more compelling and convincing than anything Civil War historian James McPherson has written on the soldier experience.

I recently went back to college. What I discovered was the people who become professors are the people pleasers who are good a repeating back what ever they are told but not at thinking for themselves. Those who were a little rebellious went elsewhere other than academia. What we have created in our universities is an echo chamber where original thought is discouraged. Unfortunately all the professors in this series that I have listened to so far begin from the same bias that clouds their ability to see the world as it really is. In order to understand the world we need more diversity of opinions where two or more sides of an issue are presented and over the long term the best ideas are likely to prevail. When all the professors think alike and are sure they have the correct view no new learning occurs. As in any field there are a few exceptions. New truths generally begin as a fringe position and slowly are adopted. The producers of this podcast need to seek out those fringe professors at least occasionally.

Would like to hear more about slavery, how horrible Americas past was, how math is racist and Trump.

Just listened to the episode about the coroners. The President is taken to Bethesda Naval because he’s the President. Not because he’s a “navy man”. And since when do navy doctors not know much about gun shots? You mean the guys that are on the battlefield?! Makes me wonder what else they are ignorant of.

I enjoy the show but keep in mind, most are only giving the official narrative.

“Female slaves and the law” is a great episode!

I listen to this podcast when I’m out on my walk. I get so involved that when the instructor asks “how many of you have heard of x?” I raise my hand! A wonderful resource. Thanks!

I really am enjoying this podcast. The variety of topics is really appealing. The speakers are interesting and I have learned a lot from the 4-5 episodes I have listened to. So far, my particular favorite was on Coroners in the 19th Century South, really interesting and educational.

I enjoy this podcast, thanks for making it available!

Not every lecture is interesting or well done which paradoxically is an appeal of the podcast . The quality varies widely in both content and delivery . Some are enthralling ; others are cringe inducing in mistakes and the slanting to present a view favored no matter how inconsistent with the facts . The student questions also reflect how ignorant of basic historical facts and contexts many current college students are . An important window into current quality of university teaching .

Know your facts , st paul mn is were mr wilson worked

I love these lectures—especially the Civil War-focused one. Col. Doug Douds should have his own history podcast. Honestly, I could listen to him all day long. That said, every lecture I’ve listened to over the years has been fantastic. I don’t know how CSPAN chooses which lectures to feature, but they are doing an amazing job! 🤓

Who in their right mind included a John Prevas lecture on this program? His analysis and history in that Bill of Rights lecture is so Islamophobic and slapdashedly ignorant that I couldn’t believe this was actually a C-SPAN lecture. He speaks about topic so superficially and full of errors that it’s almost absurd. Who approved this?

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Disappointed the students in the lecture hall (Davidson College) utter within every four or five words “like” in providing very thoughtful inputs.

This program is one lecture from a college classroom on history/politics/economics or something related. Fascinating lectures, stick with them even when you hit a professor you don’t agree with. There’s only one lecture and no papers or exams.

Lots of interesting topics to choose from, and I love the chance to listen to these experts.

If this were strictly lectures, it would be a great podcast. Instead, you often have to sit through students asking/answering questions, and I have zero interest in that.

So grateful this podcast exists! It’s free, high quality education!

Excellent.

Love the lectures, mostly! The variety, the points of view, the sometimes enthusiasm of the teachers for their material. It inspires me to want to know more! I also love catching up visually on Cspan 3 latter and checking these people, and their students out. Helps me as an primarily auditory learner be a life long learner!

This lecture is a complete joke! The “professor” is a total flake; breezing through her superficial economic opinions; then summarizing the topic with half-dozen music clips of rap, hip-hop & DEVO! No wonder we see daily interviews with college kids who are so clueless... they’re being lectured by morons like Loyola University Chicago professor Michelle Nickerson! The thought of paying $60,000++ a year for my daughter to sit through something like this is ridiculous. But Worse is the fact that kids leave a place like this with $200,000+ in college debt! Unable to think for themselves and already cut off from The American Dream because of debt accrued for a worthless “education.”

I really enjoy the lectures. I always felt like I did not appreciate the extent I f my courses so I make up by reading a lot. This is a great way of reducing that feeling.

You did not get to enroll in a top 10 university known for its' History Department? Great! You saved thousands and can get it here for FREE. Now you can listen over and over again and really learn something at your pleasure. And the lectures are a pleasure. Five stars.

Generally good. The episode of 19th century drug addiction was a complete waste. Note to anyone recording a lecture - it's audio only! If the lecturer is relying on power point slides and not narrating. We see it.

Thanks from a baby boomer who loves this chance to go back to college. How fortunate we were, how fortunate today's young people are, to have the college experience. By the way, I now know that the more the professor infuriates me with his or her point of view, the more I think and learn. May freedom of speech endure.

I wish I could take these courses. History fans will love this.

This man is doing his best.

I'm looking for a podcast entitled the American peril. It came out over the summer and was one of my favorites and I'd really like to hear it again.

If a person is able to think for themselves and question the perspective of the speaker it is a great way to get a history course. Great podcast.

Great refresher of American History.

It's a filtered history lesson. It gets the job done if you have no background on the topic but in order to learn the real history you need to go to declassified documents instead of listening to a professor recycle the watered down textbook version