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City University of New York professor emeritus Joshua Brown taught a class on the 1863 New York City Draft Riots and Civil War newspapers. He described how citizens across the country saw dr…

Historians discussed insights into what Americans thought about the Civil War and how they participated in the politics of the day that are revealed by magazine and newspaper cartoons. Examp…

Eric Foner and illustrations editor Joshua Brown talked about their book Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, published by Knopf. The book addressed the role blacks p…

At this event held at the Library of Congress, participants talked about how historians and scholars would depict the events surrounding September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. They…