Category: Videos
CBS Sunday Morning Visits the Slavery and Reconstruction Sites of Harriet Tubman
CBS Sunday Morning has a nice travel piece visiting the sites of Harriet Tubman’s life in slavery in Maryland and freedom in Auburn, N.Y. CBS…
Kevin Levin Speaks at National Archives About the Black Confederate Myth
My review of Kevin Levin’s new book Searching for Black Confederates was my second most popular article over the last month. Yesterday, the historian spoke…
Video Panel Discussion on Black Suffrage During Reconstruction
C-Span has an interesting panel discussion from the November 2016 Lincoln Forum. The panel discusses African American suffrage during Reconstruction. It looks at broader issues…
“Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” Documentary to Run this Week on Many PBS Stations
Beginning tomorrow, many PBS stations are rerunning Henry Louis Gates’s four hour series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. Check your local PBS station’s schedule…
Rhiannon Giddens’s Song Offers Dialogue Between Slave Owner and Freedwoman at Moment of Emancipation
Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops has a new solo album out called Freedom Highway. The song “Julie” presents a dialogue between a slave and…
Noticing Diversity in Reconstruction NYC “…it’s Ireland and Italy, Jerusalem and Germany, Chinese and Africans and a paradise for rats”
McNally’s Row of Flats was a popular song of 1882 describing the emerging diversity of the Five Points in New York City. Set in a…
Video Lecture: The Andrew Johnson Impeachment in Popular Culture
C-SPAN has an interesting lecture by Brook Thomas of UC Irvine on the depictions of the Johnson Impeachment during the first 60 years of the…
Video Lecture: The Rise of the Southern Conservative Response to Reconstruction and the Klu Klux Klan
Professor Robert Kenzer of the University of Richmond gives a lecture on the “rise of the Southern conservative response and the Klu Klux Klan.” Very…
Calls for Reparative Justice for Slavery Began Soon After the End of the Civil War
The hearing this week in the House of Representatives on reparations for slavery was perhaps the most widely reported on event of the Reconstruction Sesquicentenial….
Video Lectures: “The Road from Appomattox: Political Violence, Military Conflict, and National Reunion”
On February 20, 2016 the Library of Virginia hosted The Road From Appomattox Symposium. C-SPAN posted some of the lectures, so I thought a post…
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