Videos

Author Elizabeth Varon discussed Confederate General James Longstreet, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. The Atlanta History Center hosted this program.

Historians Fitzhugh Brundage, Jon Sensbach, and Scott Nelson discussed how the South’s economy, politics, religion, race relations, and culture have impacted America over the last two centur…

University of Pennsylvania political science professor Adolph Reed provided a history of the Jim Crow era through the day-to-day lives of Blacks in the South. This was a virtual program host…

Historian David Hackett Fischer talked about how people from different parts of Africa influenced regional cultures in the United States. The Atlanta History Center hosted this virtual progr…

Allen Guelzo talked about Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s life from boyhood through the Civil War. The Atlanta History Center hosted this virtual program.

Harvard University professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin looked back at the life of attorney Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court as well as the…

Mary Frances Early reflected on being the first African American student to graduate from the University of Georgia in 1962. This was a virtual program hosted by the Atlanta History Center.