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Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory by Harold Holzer
Category: History | Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
"Emancipating Lincoln" seeks a new approach to the "Emancipation Proclamation", a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These seventeen hundred words are Lincoln's most important piece of writing, responsible both for his being hailed as ...Show more
No Property in Man - Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding by Sean Wilentz
Category: History | Series: The\Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. The acclaimed political historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and ...Show more
Redeeming the Great Emancipator by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: Biography | Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous def ...Show more
The Long Emancipation - The Demise of Slavery in the United States by Ira Berlin
Category: History | Series: The\Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berli ...Show more
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