The following are video presentations of lectures I have given as the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American history from 2006 to the present.

Lecture 1: Antebellum Slavery and Freedom, 1528-1865, The Paradox of Race and Liberty in the West

Lecture 3: The Urban Frontier, 1875-1940, African Americans in the Cities of the West

Lecture 4: The World War II Era, 1941-1950, Migration and Transformation

Lecture 5: Into the 21st Century, The Black West in the Modern Era

The Peopling of Seattle: Race, Immigration, and Migration

This lecture was given on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 as the second presentation in the “Excavating Seattle’s Histories: Peoples, Politics, and Place” Lecture Series Sponsored by the Department of History and the University of Washington Alumni Association.

The Meaning of African American History and Black History Month

Presentation at the Breakfast Group Meeting, First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Seattle, Washington, February 14, 2013

C-Span Twentieth-Century Urban West

Facing the Urban Frontier: African Americans History in the Reshaping of the Twentieth Century American West

Presidential Address, Western History Association Meeting, Oakland, California, October 15, 2011

South by Northwest

South by Northwest was a series of public television documentaries (docudramas) on African American history in the Pacific Northwest that were produced by KWSU-TV, Washington State University, between 1975 and 1981.

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Peep The Trailer To ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’

28 Unknown Facts: Black History

Education Facts

New York City Facts

Democratic Party Facts