Past Lectures
- The Creation of the American Century: The Global Emergence of the US, 1890-1919
- The World Transformed: War, Revolution, and Global Pandemic, 1918
- American Cathedrals: Baseball, Ball Parks, and the Changing Shape of America’s Cities
- The Space Race: The US, the USSR, and the Quest to Conquer the Cosmos
- "Mightier than the Sword": A Brief History of American Political Cartoons
- “This Royal Throne of Kings”: English Monarchs from the Norman Conquest to the 21st Century
- Art in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1914
- Forgotten Patriots: Little Known Heroes of the American Revolution
- Presidential Losers: Unsuccessful Candidates for the Land’s Highest Office
- 1968: Politics, Protest, and Turmoil
- The Emperor: Europe in the Age of Napoleon
- John and Abigail: A Love Story
- "Yearning to Breathe Free": A Brief History of American Immigration, 1886-1954
- The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age
- The Roaring Twenties: America in the Age of Jazz and Prohibition
- Riding the Post Road: Travel Adventures in Colonial New England
- A Divided World: The Cold War, 1945-1991
- Foreign Patriots: European Volunteers in the American Revolution
- American Architecture from 1945- A Three Part Series
- Manifest Destiny and the Conquest of a Continent
- "The Fictions of Slander": The Scandalous Adventures of Aaron Burr
- In Darkness and in Light: The Life and Art of Caravaggio
- "…Like a Mighty Stream:" The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
- China and the West: The Decline of the Celestial Empire, 1830-1911
- The Collision of Empires: France and Britain in North America, 1753-1763
- A Ferocious Tenacity: The Saga of Ireland
- The Indestructible Soul: A Brief History of Poland
- “The Times that Try Men’s Souls”: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1776
- “We the People:” Forging a New Nation, 1787-1788
- The White City: Olmsted, Tesla, and the Invention of the Modern World
- Mr. Madison's War: The US, Britain, and the War of 1812
- Angels of the Battlefield: Women and War in the 19th Century
- Vampires, Madmen, and Monsters: the History Behind Our Favorite Tales of Horror
- Adams: Four Generations of an American Family
- Sicily: Island in the Sun
- The Renaissance
- From the Bastille to Waterloo: The Story of the French Revolution
- La Forza del Destino: The Story of Italian Unification
- "Every other house a tavern": Society, Drink, and Revolution in Colonial New England
- Lincoln's 1863: From Emancipation to Dedication
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
- The Failure of Peace: Versailles, the League, and the Road to War, 1919-1941
- The Grand Tour: A Virtual Voyage
- Sam Colt: American Legend
- Eternal: the Architectural Grandeur of Rome
- America's Forgotten Wars: Or how the Young Republic Conquered a Continent and Gained an Empire
- Statue of Liberty
- The Crisis of the 14th century and the remaking of Western Civilization
- The End of Old Europe: War, Revolution, and the Collapse of European Monarchy
- Indians and Englishmen: Conflict and Conquest in Colonial New England
- The One Termers
- The Great Game: Russia and the West in the 19th Century
- The Conquests: Norman Adventures in Western Europe, 1000-1300
- The Palace of the Sun King: Art and Power at Versailles
- The Eternal State: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire, 1299-1683
- The Movable Feast: A History of Paris
- The Tudors