Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation Chairman Harold Holzer discusses Abraham Lincoln and the Freedom of the Press during the Civil War.

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A panel discussion on the career of historian and author James McPherson. Speakers include friends, colleagues and former students of the noted Civil War historian. This two-hour event took place in Chicago at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting.

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A discussion on race and the role it played leading up to and during the Civil War - and how the war’s outcome and immediate aftermath have impacted racial issues ever since. Speakers include Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Yale University professor David Blight, University of Richmond President Edward Ayers, and Frank Smith, who heads the African American Civil War Memorial & Museum.  This two-hour event took place at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.

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Actor Stephen Lang portrays Battle of Gettysburg veteran James Jackson Purman, a Union lieutenant who received the Congressional Medal of Honor.  Mr. Lang presents Lieutenant Purman as if he were speaking in 1913 on the 50^th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. After the performance, Mr. Lang takes questions about his career as an actor playing roles from various military eras.

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Authors Thomas Craughwell and Michael Kline talk about the Baltimore Plot – a plan to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln in February, 1861 as he made his way by train to Washington, DC for his March 4^th inauguration.  The authors spoke at the Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Bjorn Skaptason presented a slide show of artifacts of Abraham Lincoln and told the stories behind them.
"Stories Behind the Artifacts: Lincoln's Early Life, Presidential Campaign of 1860, and First Inauguration" was the final presentation of the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln's Inauguration Symposium held at the Union League Club of Chicago, in partnership with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Public Library, Civil War Round Table of Chicago, Lincoln Academy of Illinois, Newberry Library, and the Pritzker Military Library.

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The Association for the Study of African American Life and History discussed strategies to involve African Americans in commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

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The Battle of Wilson’s Creek in southwestern Missouri on August 10, 1861, is considered by many historians to be the second battle of the Civil War – taking place about three weeks after the better-know Battle of Bull Run back east in Virginia. Missouri State University History Professor William Piston talked about that battle and the events that led up to it at an event hosted by the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis.

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To mark the 150th anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter, Union Civil War re-enactors commemorate the events that took place on April 12, 1861. Park historian Richard Hatcher discusses the history of Fort Sumter and how the attack on the fort ignited the Civil War.

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On The Civil War, author and history professor Stephen Berry discusses the relationships of President Abraham Lincoln and the Todd Family – the brothers and sisters of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.  He spoke at November’s Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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