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March 4, 2011 Last Aired December 22, 2020
By One Vote

Michael Holt talked about his book By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 (University Press of Kansas, 2011). Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes won the 1876 president…
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February 19, 2014 Last Aired April 6, 2014
Death in the White House

Panelists talked about Presidents Franklin Pierce, Calvin Coolidge, Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, who all lost sons during their time in office. This panel was part of the event “When Li…
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March 17, 2011 Last Aired March 21, 2011
The Origins of the Secession Crisis and the Civil War

On the 150th anniversary of the secession winter, this session takes a new look at an old question: what were the causes of the Civil War? Each of the three presenters has recently authored …
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April 28, 2006 Last Aired June 1, 2006
Congress Confronting Slavery, Part 4

The U.S. Capitol Historical Society 2006 Spring Conference “Congress and Slavery in the 1840s and 1850s” is the third in the series, “The National Capitol in a Nation Divided: Congress and t…
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