Opening Remarks
Inventing the Immigration Problem-Immigration Policy a Century Ago and Now
Migrating to Prison
Defying Caricatures: America Needs and America Wants Legalization
Fit for America? The Perennial Fear That Immigrants are Unassimilable
Desert Crossings, Carrying Capacities, and Assimilation: Rethinking the History of Immigration
Presenter Panel Discussion
The Promise and Tragedy of the Constitution: Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
Eric Weitz, a distinguished professor of history and past dean of humanities and arts at City College of New York, specializes in modern German and European history. His lecture focused on Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi Party.
The Reconstruction of Rights After the Civil War
A professor of history at Duke University and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation, Laura Edwards' lecture charted the movement of civil rights in America following the 14th Amendment.
Adams, Jefferson and American Constitutionalism
Pulitzer Prize-winner Gordon Wood delivered the Teach-In's luncheon address. A professor emeritus of history at Brown University, Wood spoke primarily on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and their differing views on governance.
The Crisis of Modern Turkey
Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute and author of "The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey," warned of the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey under President Recep Erdogan.
The Republic, If You Can Keep It: Public Education and American Democracy
Johann Neem, a senior fellow of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and professor of history at Western Washington University, concluded the 2017 Teach-In. He is the author of the recently published book, "Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America."
Christendom's Last Holy War? The First World War as a Crusade
Philip Jenkins, an author and history professor at Baylor University, kicked off the 2016 Teach-In, "Teach-In on the First World War on March 7, 2016.
Recycling the Disabled: Modern Medicine in the First World War
Heather Perry, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, delivered a lecture on the intense loss of life and eventual medical innovations introduced in WWI.
We're All Wilsonians, Whether we Like it Or Not
University of Texas history professor H.W. Brands gave a luncheon address on Woodrow Wilson and isolationism.
Uncle Sam Wants You: Oklahoma, WWI and the Making of Modern America
Christopher Capozzola, an associate history professor at MIT, focused his lecture on the Great War in relation to Oklahoma.
Panel Discussion: How the First World War Shaped the Modern World
All six lecturers from the day's Teach-In contributed to a Q&A session with those in attendance.
The First World War in the Middle East
Eugene Rogan, a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford and director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College in Oxford, explained how the First World War continues to have ramifications in the Middle East.
World War One: Rethinking the Centenary
John Horne, emeritus professor of modern European history at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, delivered the keynote address of Teach-In on the First World War.
Fear, War and American Expansion, 1803-1821
Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of history at the University of Virginia Alan Taylor delivers the keynote address for the Teach-In on the Western Frontier.
The American West
A leading scholar in the fields of the American West, Native American history and environmental history, Stanford history professor Richard White speaks at the 2015 Teach-In, the Teach-In on the Western Frontier.
Oklahoma, The West and the World
Peter Kastor, professor of history and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, delivers his talk on Oklahoma's place in the West.
The Worst Hard Time
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, reporter and historian Tim Egan delivers a Teach-In lecture on the horrors of the Dust Bowl.
Water in the West
Patricia Limerick, author, columnist and professor of history at the University of Colorado, speaks on a resource always in short supply in the American West: water.
The Great Coincidence: The Gold Rush and the Re-making of America
Elliott West, author and professor of history at the University of Arkansas, begins the Teach-In on the Western Frontier.
David Kennedy, professor emeritus of History at Stanford University, considers how WWII shaped the contemporary world.
Part 1: Panel on America's Founding Moderated by Diane Rehm
In this first half of the panel discussion in Teach-In on America’s Founding at The University of Oklahoma, Diane Rehm leads experts through an active discussion around the Constitution and America’s Founding.
Part 2: Panel on America's Founding Moderated by Diane Rehm
In this second half of the panel discussion in Teach-In on America’s Founding at The University of Oklahoma, Diane Rehm leads experts through an active discussion around the Constitution and America’s Founding.
Peter S. Onuf - Thomas Jefferson's Founding
In what was the first-ever Teach-In lecture, early American historian Peter S. Onuf speaks about the impact Thomas Jefferson had on the founding of America despite not being present at the signing of the Constitution. Onuf is a Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia.
