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Lectures in History: Prostitution and the Civil War

Professor Sharita Thompson

Professor Sharita Thompson

Washington, DC
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Professor Sharita Thompson of Gettysburg College is a historian of the African American experience during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She teaches a course on “Sex and the Civil War”, and in this week’s class she focuses on prostitution in the North and South.

Airing: Saturday 8pm, Midnight ET; Sunday 1pm ET

Updated: Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:38pm (ET)

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Washington Journal (late 2012)