Reconstruction and Civil Rights
Eric Foner talked about the challenges of establishing civil rights for freedmen in the Reconstruction period and beyond…
Clip: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Eric Foner talked about the challenges of establishing civil rights for freedmen in the Reconstruction period and beyond…
Historian Gary Gallagher argued that the primary motive of the North during the Civil War was to preserve the “Union"-no…
Historian Seymour Drescher talked about slavery being abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833. He noted that the…
Professor Jenny Wahl argued that the institution of slavery was essentially an economic phenomenon. She used PowerPoint …