Kansas Museum of History curators look at two guidons (swallowtail flags) used by Kansas cavalry units during the Civil War.

From the Library of Congress website:

"What effect did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the Civil War? Did it have a broader effect on the slave trade throughout the Americas? In celebration of Law Day, these questions and many more were discussed by Congressman G.K. Butterfield, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., Dean Kurt Schmoke and Professor Emeritus Roger Wilkins, with PBS Newshour's congressional correspondent Kwame Holman moderating."

Laura Cohen Apelbaum and Wendy Turman of the Jewish Historical Society look at the life of Jewish Americans in Washington, DC during the Civil War.

Rachael Penman of the National Museum of Crime and Punishment discusses the persuasive technique and presence of Lyndon B. Johnson, both during and before his presidency.

From the Maine Humanities Council website:

"Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. In this lecture, Brown examined the ways in which debates over regionalism, race relations and governmental power have influenced how America has remembered Abraham Lincoln, particularly in public monuments."

From the Maine Humanities Council website:

"Elizabeth D. Leonard is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College, where she has taught since 1992. Leonard is the author of three books on the Civil War era, and she is under contract to write the biography of Joseph Holt, Lincoln's judge advocate general. In this talk, she explores Holt's role in the manhunt that followed the assassination. She also delineates the arguments that took place between those who were determined to avenge Lincoln's death (and the war itself) and those who aimed to forgive the rebel South and forget the plight of the recently freed slaves."

Kansas Museum of History curators look at a black umbrella—used to shelter Abraham Lincoln from the weather during his inaugural tour in 1861—in the museum's collection.

From the Lincoln Online Conference website:

"During this session, Smithsonian Teacher Ambassador and Maryland Teacher of the Year (2007) Michelle Hammond facilitate[d] a discussion among participants of lesson ideas involving Lincoln, and shares a few ideas of her own.

. . . This session foster[ed] dialogue among those attending about how best to integrate the lessons of Lincoln, his life and times into the classroom."

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From the Lincoln Online Conference website:

"For a nation at war over slavery, President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was inevitable. Its timing and content, however, were not without great struggle. The 'how' of the proclamation was just as critical as the 'when,' but it began a chain of events that changed not just our Constitution but the face of the nation. Lonnie Bunch, Founding Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, will examine Lincoln's challenges to introduce a document that became a cornerstone event for communities of all races for generations to come."

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From the Lincoln Online Conference website:

"Like photography today, photography during the Civil War had many functions, from private to public. The session, led by Shannon Thomas Perich, will examine a variety of Civil War-related photography from the Photographic History Collection with the goal of gaining a greater understanding of how photography was incorporated into everyday lives, and how we value those photographs today as historical objects. Objects will include the 1860 Rutgers college yearbook that belonged to Texan George McNeel; Alexander Gardner's Sketchbook of the War; glass-plate negatives by Brady's studio of Lincoln's Cabinet; the portrait of a Union washerwoman; and Lincoln portraits incorporated into cartes-de-visite albums."

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