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William W. Freehling is a Professor Emeritus for the History Department in the University of Kentucky with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2007 Interview. The year with the most videos was 2010 with four videos as a Senior Fellow for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Most common tag: Civil War.
A panel was held on the secession of South Carolina from the Union on December 20, 1860. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, shortly after the 1860…
One hundred and fifty years after the outbreak of the Civil War, a panel of historians debated whether or not the war could have been avoided. They…
William Freehling talked about two pivotal showdowns in Virginia, the most populous slave state in the south prior to the Civil War: the 1832…
William Freehling talked about President Andrew Jackson and how his career, thoughts, and actions relate to the origins of the…