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 describes the division of the South by class tension during the Civil War. In addition, millions of slaves were rooting for Yankee victory.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the superior resources and infrastructure of the North, which helped it overpower the South in the Civil War, even though the South had the home turf advantage.

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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 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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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.

Historian John Michael Vlach speculates very briefly on what slave quarters removed from the main estate at Hampton National Historic site may have looked like.

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Kitty Wilson Evans, an award-winning costumed interpreter at Historic Brattonsville, explains how slave children worked on the plantation.

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Reenactor Marcia Estabrook plays half-white, half-black slave Ellen Craft. Estabrook tells Craft's story of her upbringing as a slave and her escape from slavery dressed as a white man, with her husband posing as a slave.

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Using stories from her prize-winning book, Doris Kearns Goodwin examines the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Goodwin argues that Lincoln's voracious intellect, his kind and generous demeanor, his empathy, and his appreciation for the talents of others led him to assemble what she calls "the most unusual cabinet in history." Goodwin also provides an insider's look into her research methods, as she recounts combing through thousands of pages of letters and diaries.

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