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On September 3, 1838, American abolitionist, reformer, and great orator Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery
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On September 3, 1838, American abolitionist, reformer, and great orator Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery
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On September 3, 1838, American abolitionist, reformer, and great orator Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery
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On August 21, 1858, the first of seven prominent debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place
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On August 21, 1858, the first of seven prominent debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place
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On August 21, 1858, the first of seven prominent debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place
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On August 6, 1848, Susie King Taylor, a nurse, educator, and author, and the first and only black woman to publish her recollections of the Civil War, was born in Liberty County, Georgia
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On August 6, 1848, Susie King Taylor, a nurse, educator, and author, and the first and only black woman to publish her recollections of the Civil War, was born in Liberty County, Georgia
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On August 6, 1848, Susie King Taylor, a nurse, educator, and author, and the first and only black woman to publish her recollections of the Civil War, was born in Liberty County, Georgia
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Jonathan W. White: Shipwrecked – A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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On this day in 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in The National Era
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There was no color line in Lincoln’s White House
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On May 22, 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks severely beats Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber after Sumner made a speech against slavery and its expansion
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On May 22, 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks severely beats Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber after Sumner made a speech against slavery and its expansion
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On May 22, 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks severely beats Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber after Sumner made a speech against slavery and its expansion
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Remembering the Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant and the “Unconditional Surrender”
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Thomas Kidd: Thomas Jefferson – A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
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Every Vote Matters
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Jonathan White Awarded 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
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A Most Sincere and Active Friend
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Providence College: The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery
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I Must have Kentucky
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Regent: George Washington and Slavery
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St. Joseph’s University: Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia – Street Diplomacy and the Struggle over Slavery
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Benedictine College: Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Elliott Drago: Street Diplomacy – The Politics of Slavery and Freedom in Philadelphia, 1820–1850
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A Significant Office
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University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Thinking about Reparations
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The Steel Trap
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Slave Catchers All!
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Providence College “The Great Debate: James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley on Slavery and the American Dream,” September 16 at 3:00 p.m.
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Your Equal Genius in Softer language
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Our Moral Lights
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University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Honesty and Optimism – A Talk on Slavery and Racism
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George Fox University: Slavery and the American Founding
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Christendom: James Madison’s Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism
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Harriet Tubman Day
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Harriet Tubman Day
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Harriet Tubman Day
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Harriet Tubman Day
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University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Frederick Douglass, the Making of an American
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University of Alaska-Anchorage: Edwin Stanton – Lincoln’s War Secretary
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Jonathan W. White: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
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Jonathan W. White: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss
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Ohio University: “The 1619 Project: A Missed Opportunity”
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Starting Points Journal: Michael Zuckert on Madison, Slavery, and the Constitution
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Gettysburg, Lincoln’s Legacy, and the Pursuit of Liberty and Equality
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The Emancipation Proclamation and the Meaning of the War
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Lincoln’s Leadership and a Nation Dividing
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Andrew F. Lang on Lincoln in Private
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Mark David Hall: Slavery and the American Founding
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Voegelin Institute: How Washington and Lincoln Prepared the End of Slavery in America
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Kinder Institute: The Prescient Mind of James Madison
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Clemson University: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
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Jonathan White: “Black Lives Certainly Mattered to Abraham Lincoln”
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Notre Dame: Slavery at the Constitutional Convention
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Kinder Institute: Lincoln, the Founding, and the Challenge of Self-Government
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University of Alaska-Anchorage: Chase and Lincoln – Friends, Rivals, and Antislavery Colleagues
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Kinder Institute: Thomas Jefferson and the International Slave Trade
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Arizona State University: Virtual Series on Race, Justice, and Leadership
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Justin Dyer: “Lincoln’s House Divided and Ours”
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St. John’s College – Santa Fe: “Learning to Love Lincoln”
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Robinson Woodward-Burns: Emerson on Mobbing, War, and Abolition
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RealClear Public Affairs: Peter Myers on Frederick Douglass’s American Identity Politics
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Princeton: “The Indispensable, Uncancelable Statesmanship of George Washington”
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American Political Thought: Fall 2020 Issue
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CU Boulder: “The 1619 Project as Missed Opportunity”
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Arizona State University: New Virtual Series on Race, Justice, and Leadership
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Apply Now: Editorship at Civil War History Journal
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A JMC Webinar: Wilfred McClay & Lucas Morel on “1619 vs. 1776: Why Was America Founded?”
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Allen Guelzo: “On Abraham Lincoln”
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Starting Points Journal: Justin Dyer & Adam Seagrave on the Founding and Modern Racial Issues
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American Political Thought: Spring 2020 Issue
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Christianity in America and Christian Political Thought
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Kinder Institute: Slavery and Politics at the University of Missouri
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Remembering Black History in America
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American Political Thought: Winter 2020 Issue
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UCLA: Was Reconstruction a Lost Moment?
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UW Madison: The Missouri Compromise at 200
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Interview: Wilfred McClay on Land of Hope
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Diana Schaub on Lincoln’s Political Thought
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Diana Schaub: Lincoln at Gettysburg
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Andrew Delbanco: The 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction
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Mercer University: Slave Resistance in the Atlantic World
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Forrest Nabors on the Missouri Compromise
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Fresh Air: Andrew Delbanco on the Fugitive Slave Act
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The Oligarchy of the American South
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Does the Constitution Condone or Condemn Slavery?
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Gregory Collins on Frederick Douglass and Originalism
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Joshua Lynn on the Antebellum Democratic Party
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David Waldstreicher – Missouri Regional Seminar on Early American History
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“Slavery’s End Deserves a 150th Celebration”
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Justin Dyer on “Confronting Slavery,” by Suzanne Cooper Guasco
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