This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the viewpoints and reform activities of women in the years immediately prior to the Civil War. While many women in the North were advocating the abolition of slavery, Southern women were still defending their way of life.
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NBC Narrator Rosalind Jordan looks back at the story of Emmett Till, who was 14 when he left Chicago to visit his family in the segregated South. Two white men accused Till of making a pass at Bryant's wife, Carolyn, and Till was brutally murdered.
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Historian Josh Brown analyzes a political cartoon from the magazine Harper's Weekly that focuses on former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Hiram Revels, the first black senator in history.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, to assure citizenship to blacks after the Civil War, Congress proposed the 14th Amendment. However, most Southern states refused to ratify it.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes one of the horrors of slavery: the separation of families. After Emancipation, slaves wandered hundreds of miles across the south to try to find their spouses and children.
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Columbia University Professor Eric Foner describes the difficulties that slave families faced as they ran north across Union army lines during the Civil War.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, as the Civil War progresses, slaves fled north. As their numbers increased, they became a weapon of the Union Army.
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Abraham Lincoln will stand at the center of the seminar, though less as a biographical subject than as a prism for exploring key aspects of his age. The themes and topics to be addressed include slavery and the Old South; the abolitionist impulse and the broadening antislavery movement; party political realignment and the sectional crisis of the 1850s; evangelicalism and politics; the election of 1860, the secession of the Lower South, and the coming of war; wartime leadership, political and military; the Civil War 'home front'; emancipation; the elements of Confederate defeat and Union victory; and the meaning of the war for American nationalism.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Abraham Lincoln's tough reelection, three years into the Civil War. General Sherman's victory in Atlanta helped turn public opinion.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Compromise of 1877, the hotly disputed presidential run-off between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden.
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