Life and Legacy of President Abraham Lincoln
Pastimes Productions executive co-producers Doris Kearns Goodwin and Beth Laski talked about their recent miniseries on Abraham Lincoln’s life. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln Forum hel…
115 viewsPastimes Productions executive co-producers Doris Kearns Goodwin and Beth Laski talked about their recent miniseries on Abraham Lincoln’s life. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln Forum hel…
115 viewsHistorians Jake Friefeld, Brian Mitchell, and John Rodrigue talked about how the nation moved from the Emancipation Proclamation to the 13th Amendment and what life was like for African Amer…
116 viewsHistorians Allen Guelzo, Michelle Krowl, Dana Shoaf, Melissa Winn, and Jonathan White discussed soldiers and civilians who died in the Civil War. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln Forum h…
196 viewsAuthor Candice Shy Hooper talked about Absalom Hanks Markland, also known as “Grant’s postmaster general,” a U.S. Post Office Department special agent who ensured that military mail was deli…
73 viewsHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangle…
584 viewsHistorians Edna Greene Medford and Matthew Norman discussed African Americans feelings toward President Abraham Lincoln during his presidency. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln Forum held…
143 viewsHistorian Edward Achorn talked about the 1860 Republican convention and how unlikely Abraham Lincoln was as a political nominee. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln Forum held in Gettysburg…
404 viewsHistorians Edward Achorn, Joseph Fornieri, Ronald White, Harold Holzer, and Erin Carlson Mast discussed President Abraham Lincoln as a communicator and shaper of public opinion. This event w…
196 viewsMissouri Southern State University professor Megan Bever talked about the temperance movement and alcohol use by soldiers during the Civil War. This virtual program was hosted by the Center …
371 viewsVirginia Military Institute professor Jonathan Jones talked about how opium and morphine -- common treatments used for wartime injuries -- grew into lifelong drug dependence for many in the …
548 viewsAuthor Adam Mendelsohn discussed when and why Jews decided to enlist in the war and how they created community within their ranks. The Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies in Rockville, Mar…
472 viewsHistorian Ted Widmer traced Abraham Lincoln’s trip to Washington through a divided country before his first inauguration in 1861. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech U…
480 viewsHistorian John Hennessy talked about the fighting at, and destruction of, the Stone Bridge that crosses Bull Run at the entrance to Manassas during the battle there in 1862. This was part of…
218 viewsHistorian Scott Mingus discussed the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge in Pennsylvania over the Susquehanna River in 1863. Retreating militia units burned the bridge in an effort to halt th…
459 viewsHistorian Ryan Quint discussed Confederate Major General Jubal Early’s attack on the defenses of the bridge at Monocacy, Maryland in 1864. Union retreat opened the road to Washington for Ear…
264 viewsHistorian Jerry Desmond discussed the 1865 Battle of High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia. Failure to destroy this railroad crossing bridge enabled General Grant’s Union forces to catch up …
376 viewsHistorian Kate Masur talked about the fight for African American freedom and equality, from the Revolutionary War to Reconstruction, with a focus on Black Laws in antebellum Illinois. This e…
124 viewsHistorian Ronald White talked about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, an unlikely Civil War General who became a hero of the 1863 Union victory in Gettysburg. This event was part the 2023 Lincoln…
264 viewsHistorians discussed newspapers and newsgathering during the Civil War. The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians hosted this event as part of its symposium on the 19th Century Press, the…
187 viewsAuthor Elizabeth Varon discussed Confederate General James Longstreet, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. The Atlanta History Center hosted this program.
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