Black Life After Emancipation
Historians 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…
165 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…
165 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…
200 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…
212 viewsHistorians debated the strengths and weaknesses of Union Generals such as George McClellan, Ulysses Grant, Ambrose Burnside, and Joseph Hooker, and how they each interacted with their comman…
826 viewsHistorians explored President Lincoln’s relationship with Democrats during the Civil War. The Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hosted this event.
351 viewsThe National Park Service and the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia marked the Lincoln Memorial’s centennial with a ceremony featuring historian Harold Holzer. The memorial was dedic…
989 viewsHistorian Harold Holzer spoke about the life and legacy of biographer and University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen Oates. Professor Oates, who died in 2021, specialized …
117 viewsScholars Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds evaluated the wartime leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. They compared how both men reacted to the crises that dominated their pre…
638 viewsOn the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial’s dedication, Abraham Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer talked about the 16th president, the memorial’s creation and construction from 1914 to 19…
1,334 viewsIn this episode of “The Weekly,” guests were Rachel Katz, Survey Project Coordinator, and two of the historians that participated, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs from Texas A&M University and aut…
115 viewsAbraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election over three challengers with less than 40 percent of the popular vote and without a single electoral vote from a slave state. His transition…
589 viewsIn October 1859 -- just 18 months before the first shots of the Civil War -- militant abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm the ar…
774 viewsHarriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849 and later went on to serve as an Underground Railroad conductor, an abolitionist, a Union spy, a Civil War nurse, and a suffragist. The Lincoln Fo…
407 viewsLincoln scholar and author Harold Holzer talked about the national debate over removing Confederate symbols and monuments.
1,831 viewsCivil War scholars Gary Gallagher, Edna Greene Medford, and Elizabeth Varon discussed the current debate surrounding Confederate monuments. They offered their ideas on how to display and pre…
1,946 viewsHistorians Joan Waugh and Gary Gallagher answered - what caused the Civil War? Ms. Waugh and Mr. Gallagher co-authored, The American War: A History of the Civil War Era. Their remarks were p…
5,925 viewsHarold Holzer talked about the recent remarks by President Donald Trump on his comparison to the 16th President of the United States and his relationship with the press. This program is ava…
169 viewsAbraham Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer gave an illustrated talk at the New-York Historical Society about the monuments created to the 16th president and what they say about how he is remember…
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