Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails
Author Tom Wheeler talked about how Abraham Lincoln used the new technology of the telegraph to communicate directly wit…
The Civil War Videos
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Silent Cavalry
Author and journalist Howell Raines talked about Union soldiers from Alabama who aided General Sherman in his 1864 March…
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Northern Politics Before the Civil War
University of Oxford history professor Adam Smith talked about how the politics and opinion of Northern communities shif…
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Making Freedom
Vanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about Underground Railroad and the enforcement …
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Generals in Bronze - Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War
Author William Styple talked about artist James Kelly who interviewed dozens of Union Civil War generals after the war t…
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Longstreet
Author Elizabeth Varon discussed Confederate General James Longstreet, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an o…
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2023 Lincoln Forum - Lincoln as a Communicator
Historians Edward Achorn, Joseph Fornieri, Ronald White, Harold Holzer, and Erin Carlson Mast discussed President Abraha…
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Combee
Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black talked about Harriet Tubman’s role in the 1863 Combahee River rai…
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2023 Lincoln Forum - Transatlantic Slave Trade During Lincoln's Presidency
Historian Jonathan White talked about how even though the slave trade was outlawed, it persisted through the 1860s. He d…