"How To Be American" From the Tenement Museum in New York, this podcast examines the history you ‘thought’ you knew and shares the stories of the immigrants, migrants, and refugees who’ve helped shape the story of America.
"Revisionist History" Each episode of this podcast from Malcolm Gladwell goes back and reinterprets something from the past: an event, a person, an idea. Something overlooked. Something misunderstood.
An important collection of essays and photographs and other work reflective of the institution of slavery, how it has shaped our history and continues to shape so many aspects of American life and institutions today.
1491: New Revelations of the America Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
American Diplomacy
by George F. Kennan
American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us
Black. Queer. Southern. Women. An Oral History
By E. Patrick Johnson
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
by Anne Moody
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
Female Husbands: A Trans History
by Jen Manion
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry
Growing Up
by Russell Baker
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
by Madeleine Albright
March Trilogy
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
by Samantha Allen
The Story of America: Essays on Origins
by Jill Lepore
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
by Susan Stryker
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
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Harvard Book Store Channel: This video archive of Harvard Book Store author talks includes talks by many prominent historians.
The LGBT Community Center National History Archive is a community-based archive that collects, preserves and makes available to the public the documentation of LGBTQ lives and organizations centered in and around New York. Through our collections, we enable the stories and experiences of New York’s LGBTQ people to be told with historical depth and understanding.