Video Frederick Douglass on Lincoln and Reconstruction Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Dickinson College historian Matthew Pinsker describes changes in Frederick Douglass’s opinion of Abraham Lincoln between Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 and the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC, in...
Video The Blind Memorandum: Abraham Lincoln and Leadership Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video The Men of Company E: Confronting Freedom after the Civil War Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
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Video Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Pulitzer Prize–winner and Yale historian David Brion Davis discusses his 2006 book, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. In his opening remarks, delivered at the New-York Historical Society in January 2007,...