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Imagined debate, and Harold Holzer moderates. The metropolitan museum of art posted this event. [applause] holzer in their entire eventful lives, be met only three times maybe for at most. And when they finally did, they spent their time together locked in political combat. One was a proud radical, and avenue an advocate for Racial Justice who ran out of patience with the status quo. The other was an ingenious master of the arts of compromise, exquisite political timing, leading when necessary from behind. One would save the union and slowly cure its major defect slavery. The other would free ...

[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] french nation for information on our schedule up next on American History tv, university of virginia history professors gary gail ger and peter onuf discuss Thomas Jeffersons views on federalism and the union of the states. They debate jeffersons provocative belief in the separation of races. President lincolns preservation of the union during the civil war and how jefferson would view todays federal government. This session from the Miller Center at the uni...

His mind, images he wouldnt be able to report, however, subconscious they were, maybe got a flickr of something as he lay there across the street. My hope is that as he lay dying lincoln was able to call to mind the image of even jesus on the cross, perhaps, but certainly my hope is that he would have had the knowledge that historic irony was about to take place. He was about to die, having been shot all the very day of jesuss crucifixion. And that would send him into a martyrdom like none other. Maybe he had some inkling that this was his fate. Of course, as is just my fantasy. But we do know...

Union in a sense was so important during the 19thcentury is gone. There were contending understandings of the meaning of union. Almost always tied to ideas about liberty and opportunity and frequently enmeshed with beliefs about the place of the institution of slavery in the american republic. All of the individuals who have been the subjects of lectures in this series talked about union from madison and other framers of the constitution who drafted what they thought would lead to a more perfect union, to Andrew Jackson who very famously referred to union in making a toast while he looked righ...

That is the one vindication i could not think of. But the way in which black ministers made sense of this, god had intervened in Human Affairs in 1861 and god had chosen Abraham Lincoln to do his work in 1862. That gods will was to transform the status of africanamericans because they were his chosen people. Now god had released them from bondage at there were great they great things in their future. One thing to keep in mind as we talk about the grim days of reconstruction and grimmer days of the jim crow south, there is an optimism that god cant be doing this to us if he will put us back in ...