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The Unmaking of a President: Rethinking Watergate at Forty [VIDEO]

It has been forty years since the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's resignation from the presidency. To mark the occasion, the AHA Annual Meeting in January hosted a dedicated Watergate panel.

AHA releases first batch of videos from 128th Annual Meeting

The American Historical Association has just released its first batch of videos from its 128th Annual Meeting.

James M. McPherson: The Rewards of Risk Taking -- Two Civil War Admirals [VIDEO]

McPherson is the author of "War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865," which formed the basis for his George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History at the 2014 annual meeting of the AHA.

How Should Historians Respond to MOOCs?

Elaine Carey Philip Zelikow, Jonathan Rees, Ann Little, and Jeremy Adelman met to debate MOOCs at #aha2014.

Elaine Carey and Julia Brookins: The Past, Present, and Future of the AHA Tuning Project [VIDEO]

Elaine Carey is Associate Professor at St. John's University in Queens, NY and the vice-president for the AHA Teaching Division. Julia Brookins is the AHA's special projects coordinator. Both of them have played leading roles in the AHA's Tuning Project for undergraduate education.

Alan Kraut: A Brief History of Ellis Island [VIDEO]

In this interview, Kraut reflects on what historians can teach to policymakers... and how Ellis Island was as much a medical center as an immigration facility.

Fredrik Logevall: How the U.S. Fumbled into Vietnam [VIDEO]

Here, the Cornell University professor explains how American lurched to war in Vietnam, and why Ho Chi Minh was a more complicated actor than policymakers of the time understood.

Samuel Moyn: The History of "Human Rights" [VIDEO]

How the concept of human rights developed in the eighteenth century in a very different way than our idea of human rights in the twentieth and twenty-first.

Anthony Grafton: The Future of History Books [VIDEO]

Professor Grafton discusses the future of the printed book, and what younger historians should know about the emerging field of digital history.

Maura Cunningham: Mao's 120th Birthday [VIDEO]

December 26, 2013 was more than Boxing Day -- it was the 120th birthday of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

Michael Kazin on Barack Obama and the American Left [VIDEO]

Sure, liberals might be disenchanted with Barack Obama, says Georgetown professor Michael Kazin, but then that's been true of every liberal president since FDR.

Jeremi Suri: Examining America's Strategic Options in Asia [VIDEO]

What options does the United States have in the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia? University of Texas history and public policy professor Jeremi Suri explains -- and clarifies his position on a possible pre-emptive strike on North Korea.

Richard R. John On How Networks Have Changed the Way Historians Think [VIDEO]

Richard R. John teaches at the Columbia Journalism School, where he specializes in the history of the political economy of communications in the United States. Here, Prof. John explains how network theory has transformed his field.

Yoni Appelbaum: The Historian in the Digital Age [VIDEO]

Yoni Appelbaum is a doctoral student at Brandeis University, and a columnist for The Atlantic. In this interview from the 2014 AHA annual meeting, he explains how he came to The Atlantic's attention, and talks about the future of digital history

Meet LGBT History Month icon Martin Duberman [VIDEO]

San Diego Gay and Lesbian News profiles the distinguished historian.

Andrew Bacevich on Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now!"

Bacevich discusses his new book "Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country."

'Uncommon Knowledge:' Victor Davis Hanson

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson discusses his latest book "The Savior Generals" with Peter Robinson. Hanson identifies the shared characteristics of generals throughout history who saved wars deemed "lost." "Uncommon Knowledge" is produced by the Hoover Institution.

Ray Begovich: How I Found Rare Footage of FDR in a Wheelchair

by David Austin Walsh

Ray Begovich, a journalism professor at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, has announced that he has discovered an eight-second clip of FDR being pushed in his wheelchair aboard the cruiser U.S.S. Baltimore in July 1944.

PBS interviews Ellen Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Mack, Michael Beschloss, and George Chauncey in roundtable on SCOTUS

Click on the link above for a transcript.

Video mashup of 60 years of SOTU

The Washington Post video team has created a video mashup of State of the Union addresses from the past sixty years -- check it out here.Further Reading:Important State of the Union Addresses in History