Actors read letters from African Americans to Abraham Lincoln onstage at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the 16th president was assassinated in 1865. Author Jonathan White and historian Edna Greene Medford talked between performances about African American attitudes and beliefs about President Lincoln.
This 1943 Office of War Information film showed how historically black colleges contributed to the WW II effort by training scientists, doctors, nurses, and soldiers. It featured Tuskegee Institute, Prairie View College, Howard University, and Hampton Institute and was released as "Negro Colleges in War Time." Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
Author Mark Calhoon discussed General Lesley McNair's organizational and strategic influence on the U.S. Army during World War II. He's interviewed by author John McManus ("To the End of the Earth"). This event took place during the 2023 International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
In the 1940s, a Senate committee led by Senator and future President Harry Truman examined the national defense program and whether there was corruption in defense contracting.
Author 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 delivered during the Civil War. The National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, hosted this program.
History professors Gregg Brazinsky (George Washington University), Steven Casey (London School of Economics & Political Science) and Mary Dudziak (Emory University) discussed the causes and early years of the Korean War. This event was part of the 2024 Symposium on War, Conflict and Society at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
Frank Aum of the U.S. Institute of Peace and historians Meghan Fitzpatrick, Nan Kim and Brian Linn discussed the legacy and lasting impacts of the Korean War. This event was part of the 2024 Symposium on War, Conflict and Society at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
Historian Nick Mueller discussed working with author Stephen Ambrose to create the National World War II Museum. Nick Mueller serves as President and CEO Emeritus of the National World War II Museum, located in New Orleans.
Historians marked the 125th anniversary of the war between American forces and Filipino nationalists that took place from 1899 to 1902. U.S. and Filipino dignitaries also unveiled a restored copy of the Philippine proclamation of independence. This event was hosted by the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia.
Historian 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 Forum held in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Author William Styple talked about artist James Kelly who interviewed dozens of Union Civil War generals after the war to understand their war and depict it in art. The Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, hosted this event.
Actors read letters from African Americans to Abraham Lincoln onstage at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the 16th president was assassinated in 1865. Author Jonathan White and historian Edna Greene Medford talked between performances about African American attitudes and beliefs about President Lincoln.
This 1943 Office of War Information film showed how historically black colleges contributed to the WW II effort by training scientists, doctors, nurses, and soldiers. It featured Tuskegee Institute, Prairie View College, Howard University, and Hampton Institute and was released as "Negro Colleges in War Time." Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
Author Mark Calhoon discussed General Lesley McNair's organizational and strategic influence on the U.S. Army during World War II. He's interviewed by author John McManus ("To the End of the Earth"). This event took place during the 2023 International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
In the 1940s, a Senate committee led by Senator and future President Harry Truman examined the national defense program and whether there was corruption in defense contracting.
Author 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 delivered during the Civil War. The National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, hosted this program.
History professors Gregg Brazinsky (George Washington University), Steven Casey (London School of Economics & Political Science) and Mary Dudziak (Emory University) discussed the causes and early years of the Korean War. This event was part of the 2024 Symposium on War, Conflict and Society at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
Frank Aum of the U.S. Institute of Peace and historians Meghan Fitzpatrick, Nan Kim and Brian Linn discussed the legacy and lasting impacts of the Korean War. This event was part of the 2024 Symposium on War, Conflict and Society at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
Tulane University History Professor Rien Fertel discussed the erection of Confederate monuments in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century at the same time as efforts to integrate and unionize Black and white dock laborers. Tulane University is in New Orleans.
Atlantic Staff Writer David Frum - speaking from Woodrow Wilson's Washington, D.C., home - reconsidered the 28th president's legacy, including his efforts to persuade the U.S. to join the League of Nations and the segregated federal government of his time.
Author Tom Wheeler talked about how Abraham Lincoln used the new technology of the telegraph to communicate directly with his Union generals and helped win the Civil War. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this event.
Author Brady Crytzer talked about the 1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania in response to a government tax on liquor. Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania hosted this event.
Columbia University presented the Bancroft prize to the 2024 winners, authors Elliott West ("Continental Reckoning") and Carolyn Eisenberg ("Fire and Rain").
The historical legacy of singer Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," her lament about the lynchings of African Americans, was considered in a conversation that included the composer's son. Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute in New York hosted this event.
