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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Professor Esther Katz of New York University talks about the role of women during the Civil War.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces zealous abolitionist John Brown, who believed violence was the only way to end slavery.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the wave of reform movements in U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s. Some campaigned for better conditions in prisons and asylums, while others formed utopian communities or discovered fad diets.
Professors Gabor Boritt and Matthew Pinsker examine the War President Abraham Lincoln and the transformation of the United States during and after the Civil War. The seminar focuses on the central role of Gettysburg. Lecture topics include battlefields and soldiers; slavery and race; and Lincoln's transition to a resolute war leader.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the women's suffragist movement's evolution from idealistic to pragmatic.
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Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University explains the origin of "forty acres and a mule."
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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 the religious conviction which drove John Brown to become an abolitionist. He believed slavery was a sin.
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Anti-alcoholism cartoons like this one, which depicts the nine steps of the "drunkard's progress," were widespread in the 19th century. Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains why.
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