Professor Jonathan White delivered this excellent presentation at the 2022 Lincoln Forum. The video’s description reads, “Author Jonathan White discussed how President Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. The Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hosted this event.” https://www.c-span.org/video/?524209-2/2022-lincoln-forum-lincoln-african-americans

I found this article by Professor David Silkenat, adapted from his excellent book, Raising the White Flag. “One in every four Civil War soldiers, more than 673,000 men, surrendered at some point during the conflict. To put such numbers in context, the number of soldiers who surrendered is approximately equal to the number of soldiers […]

We begin with this story reporting on a survey regarding confederate monuments. “A majority of Americans said Confederate memorials should be changed in public spaces, while nearly two out of three say white supremacy is still a major problem in the U.S. The non-profit Public Religion Research Institute recently released a poll and report about racism […]

Here is a transcript of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’ “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on 28 Aug 1963. [begin quote] Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope […]

This book by Freeman Cleaves is the classic study of the life of Major General George Gordon Meade. The University of Oklahoma published this book in 1960. Born to Richard Worsam and Margarita Coates Butler Meade on December 31, 1815 in Cádiz, Spain, where his father was an exporter and merchant, George Gordon Meade was […]

With the proliferation of dubious websites we need to be able to evaluate where we’re getting our information to avoid misinformation. Let’s start with this essay by former Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling. “The past several years have seen a massive, sometimes malicious, assault on our sense of shared reality. The combination of social media […]

This book edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steve F. Miller is a companion to a Smithsonian Productions radio documentary and gives us the words of former enslaved people talking about their experiences in slavery. They tell us, “The struggle over slavery’s memory has been almost as intense as the struggle over slavery itself. […]