Making Freedom
Vanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about Underground Railroad and the enforcement …
The Civil War Videos
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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…
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The Lincoln Miracle
Historian Edward Achorn talked about the 1860 Republican convention and how unlikely Abraham Lincoln was as a political …
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1864 Bridges at Monocacy
Historian Ryan Quint discussed Confederate Major General Jubal Early’s attack on the defenses of the bridge at Monocacy,…
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Black Life After Emancipation
Historians Jake Friefeld, Brian Mitchell, and John Rodrigue talked about how the nation moved from the Emancipation Proc…