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Symposium cocoordinators. The hard work has made todays event possible, and also thank you to our friends at cspan for sharing American History. A very important task in these days. Our final speaker for the day is Paige Gibbons backus. We have been talking about the war in the east, but we cant forget about the aftermath of battle as well. One of the most compelling portions about Civil War History and the civil war story. Page is a public historian with Prince William county, virginia. She is here today to talk about the carnage in the medical field of the civil war. Thank you, chris, for ha...

Project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Whittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific historian, with more projects on the back burners than ive ever seen on the stove before. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see from your p...

Slavery and jefferson life have changed over recent decades. Watch friday beginning at eight eastern and enjoy American History tv this weekend every weekend on cspan three. Up next on the civil war, a story and harold holder and Valerie Perry of the New York Historical society talk about artifacts featured in their joint publication the civil war and 50 objects. In this program they discuss objects at the end of the war, and president likens assassination. This conversation took place on line in the New York Historical society provided the video. Good evening and welcome to the eighth and fin...

Wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we talked about free communities, free folks in the north and how we came with this representation of freedom. Freedom. The question of freedom and what does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean . In particular, what did it mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war, Edward Stanton and general William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were preachers, pastors, lay Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers...

Unlike that of winston churchill, abraham lincolns humor tended toward selfdeprecation. During one of the debates in illinois, the spectator shouted that lincoln was being twofaced. Twofaced, cried lincoln, if i had two faces, do you think i would wear this one . [laughter] his humor was an essential component of his persona. Richard carwardine will explore with us whether his humor might also occasionally have been a handicap. Richard carwardine was educated at Corpus Christi and queens colleges oxford and at the university of california at berkeley. For three decades he taught history at the...