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Abraham 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…

Harriet 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…

In 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…

Historian Catherine Grace Katz discussed the relationship between the three women who attended the Yalta Conference with their fathers: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman…

Historians Harold Holzer, The Presidency vs. the Press, and Ted Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge discussed their books on presidential history. This program was part of the 20th annual National …

Author and historian Harold Holzer talked about his book, The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News, in which he examined the relations…

Author and historian Harold Holzer Author and historian Harold Holzer talked about his book, The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News,…

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley of the New-York Historical Society talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication “The Civil War in 50 Objects.” In this program, they d…

Lincoln scholar and author Harold Holzer talked about the national debate over removing Confederate symbols and monuments.

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley of the New-York Historical Society talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication “The Civil War in 50 Objects.” In this program, they d…

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley of the New-York Historical Society talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication, “The Civil War in 50 Objects.” In this program, they …

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley of the New-York Historical Society talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication The Civil War in 50 Objects. In this program, they dis…

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley of the New-York Historical Society talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication, “The Civil War in 50 Objects.” In this program, they …

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley of the New-York Historical Society talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication, “The Civil War in 50 Objects.” In this program, they …

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley of the New-York Historical Society talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication, “The Civil War in 50 Objects.” In this program they d…

Historian Harold Holzer and Valerie Paley, chief historian at the New-York Historical Society, talked about artifacts featured in their joint publication, The Civil War in 50 Objects. In thi…

Harold 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…

Abraham Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer revisited the 16th president’s second inaugural address - delivered on March 4th, 1865, just six weeks before his assassination, and generally considere…

Historians Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford and David Blight talked about the views of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass on emancipating those held in slavery. They tracked their evol…