Abraham Lincoln and Immigration
Historian Harold Holzer described the American immigrant population before and during the Civil War, and how it impacted the country’s culture, politics, and future. His book is “Brought For…
55 viewsHistorian Harold Holzer described the American immigrant population before and during the Civil War, and how it impacted the country’s culture, politics, and future. His book is “Brought For…
55 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…
286 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…
198 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…
240 viewsAuthor, journalist, and historian Jonathan Darman revealed how polio transformed Franklin Roosevelt into the man who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II. The Roosev…
536 viewsRabbi Meir Soloveichik, author of Providence and Power, talked about the historic impact of 10 Jewish statesmen, including King David, Benjamin Disraeli, and Louis Brandeis. This event was h…
190 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…
850 viewsHistorians talked about the Civil War’s Chattanooga Campaign, which took place in the fall of 1863 and resulted in Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant breaking through a Confederate …
2,194 viewsHistorians talked about the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, considered to be General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. Initially, Union General Joseph Hooker planned to envelop the Confe…
2,377 viewsHistorians explored President Lincoln’s relationship with Democrats during the Civil War. The Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hosted this event.
354 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…
993 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 …
118 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…
1,338 viewsThe Federal Writers' Project was part of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, which offered employment to writers from 1935-39. Author Scott Borchert provided a history of the progr…
207 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 viewsHistorian 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…
353 viewsHistorians 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…
1,594 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…
596 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…
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