This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, when a group of women were forbidden from speaking at an anti-slavery convention in 1840, they decided to devote themselves to fighting for more freedom for women.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Homestead Act, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 as a way to encourage settlement of the American West.
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The Civil War destroyed the institution of slavery and transformed the U.S. socially, politically, and economically, all at great cost to human life: more Americans died in this war than in any other in the nation's history. The War's impact on art was almost as profound and long-lasting. Not only did the subject inspire some of the nation's best painters, sculptors, photographers, and illustrators, it also changed the face of town and countryside as monuments to soldiers and statesmen of the Civil War era spread across the landscape. This seminar will examine the far-reaching impact of the war on American art, both during the conflict and afterward, as it moved from current event into the realm of memory. The seminar will pay close attention not only to the imagery of battle but also to the social and political issues which shaped the image of the war and which in many respects continue to shape the U.S. today.
The seminar will consist of three sessions. The first two, featuring lecture and discussion, will focus on the close analysis of images and primary documents. The third will concentrate on the integration of seminar ideas and material into lesson plans using the Center's Seminar-to-Classroom Guide.
Professor Manning Marable of Columbia University tells a famous anecdote about W.E.B. Du Bois, when he was accused by federal law enforcement agents of being subversive.
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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 looks at a political cartoon portraying Republican Senator Carl Shurz and explains why many considered him a "carpetbagger" during the Reconstruction era.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how President Abraham Lincoln was forced to suspend some civil liberties to maintain control during the Civil War.
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Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains a cartoon about the fight between pro-slavery Democrats and Free Soilers in the 1850s.
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David S. Reynolds, author of Walt Whitman's America, says that Whitman had an almost utopian hope that his poetry could unite a country torn apart by the conflict over slavery.
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Professor Robert D. Johnston explores the issue of class in the United States, focusing particularly on the middle class. He argues for the middle class as a respectable, valuable social class, capable of radical social action; he uses the figures Martin Luther King, Jr., John Brown, and politician and physician Harry Lane (1855-1917) as examples.
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