Category: Videos
Columbia University Historians Abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction & BLM
Columbia University historians Christopher L. Brown, Eric Foner, Stephanie McCurry, and Bailey Yellen held a Zoom meeting this week to discuss the Black Lives Matter…
Early Reviews Praise New “Grant” Series
The reviews are beginning to come in on the new bio-docudrama “Grant” on the History Channel. The Wall Street Journal gave the miniseries a favorable…
Video: Final Panel of CUNY Abolitionist Conference Catherine Clinton , Eric Foner, James Brewer Stewart, and Sean Wilentz
Here is the final panel from the CUNY The Anti-Slavery Bulwark Conference on the Abolitionists and the coming of the Civil War. The final panel…
Video: Anti-Slavery Politics in the Antebellum Era from CUNY Conference on Abolitionists
This is the third video in a series on the Abolition Movement that was held at CUNY back in 2014. This panel looked at the…
Video: The Abolitionists and the Political Crisis of the 1850s from CUNY Abolitionist Conference
The next video in the series from CUNY’s great conference on Abolitionism is filled with heavy hitters talking about the political crisis of the 1850s….
Video: Panel on the Revolutionary War Origins of the Abolitionist Movement from CUNY Conference “The Antislavery Bulwark”
Here is the first panel in the CUNY Conference on Abolition from 2014. The conference was called “The Antislavery Bulwark.” The video of the panel…
Video: David Blight at CUNY Conference on Abolition “The Anti-Slavery Bulwark”
The City University of New York CUNY Grad Center conference on Abolition and the Civil War took place in 2014. Videos of the conference have…
Cynthia Erivo’s Performance of “Stand Up” from the Movie “Harriet” Electrified the Oscars
Cynthia Erivo’s performance of the theme song from her movie Harriet about the life of Harriet Tubman was one of the highlights of last week’s…
Video: Historian Elizabeth Varon Discusses the Johnson Impeachment
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia hosted a discussion of the Johnson Impeachment back in 2001. Elizabeth Varon is the historian who held…
Video: Southern Historical Society Panel on Teaching Reconstruction at the College Level
Here is an interesting panel presentation given two months ago at the Southern Historical Association about ways to teach Reconstruction at the undergraduate level. There…
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