Lectures in History
C-SPAN
Go back to school with the country's top professors lecturing on a variety of topics in American history. New episodes posted every Saturday evening. From C-SPAN, the network that brings you "After Words" and "C-SPAN's The Weekly" podcasts.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Lectures in History podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Limits of Detente
Craig Daly
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Wager
David Grann
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Salome
Oscar Wilde
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Peace Process
Bill Quant
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Lost City of Z
a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
David Grann
James Gray
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Wicked War, Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invention of Mexico
Amy Greenberg
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Lost World
Michael Crichton
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Insurgent Mexico
John Reed
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Hidden Wound
Wendell Berry
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Trilby
George du Maurier
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Housewife Assassin
The Woman Who Tried to kill President Ford
Jerry Spiller
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
On liberty
John Stuart Mill
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
This Is Not a True Story
Norm Macdonald
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Federalist number 10
James Madison
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Killers of the Flower Moon
Eric Roth
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
