On the eve of the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the intense deliberations that went into two historic Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and the Dred Scot decision of 1857.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, to protect the rights of blacks after the Civil War, the federal government replaced state governments in the South with military districts and extended voting rights.
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An intricate political cartoon about the depressed state of the American economy during the financial panic of 1837 is illuminated by Professor Matthew Warshauer.
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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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Professor Matthew Warshauer guides viewers through a pro-Andrew Jackson cartoon applauding the president's September 1833 order for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the first real test of the new government since George Washington was appointed to the presidency: the presidential election of 1800. Many expected chaos to ensue as one president was expected to peacefully hand power to a new president.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces General Zachary Taylor, whose reputation during the Mexican-American War propelled him to the presidency.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes one of the nastiest presidential elections in American history—the 1824 election, when a highly contested three-way race led to a scandal in Congress.
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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 introduces the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a reaction against the spoils system, which rewarded political support with jobs.
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