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University of Texas at Austin professor Jeremi Suri examined the white supremacist resistance in the years after the Civil War. The American Historical Association and the Wilson Center host…

Chandra Manning talked about her book Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War, in which she recalls the Union Army’s slave-refugee camps, which, according to the author, wer…

Chandra Manning talked about her book, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. In her research she delved into the motives of the common soldiers in the Civil War…

History Professor Chandra Manning looks at the Emancipation Proclamation and the escalation of the Civil War. Professor Manning examines how the inclusion of black soldiers helped deliver th…

A panel discussion was held on emancipation, citizenship for blacks, and contraband camps during the Civil War. After their papers were presented and Professor Blight had made comments, the …