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by Mathew Brady

Abraham Lincoln, Race, and the New Birth of Freedom

Springfield, IL IL

This seminar will examine Lincoln’s speeches and letters, as well as those of select contemporaries, on emancipation, civil war, and reconstruction. We will focus on Lincoln’s consistencies and inconsistencies on race, his changing war goals, and his vision for a postwar reconstructed nation rededicated to the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Historic Site: […]

Sloss Furnaces, now abandoned, which burned for 90 years during Birmingham, Alabama’s days as the steel city of the south

A New South: Industrialism and Race in the Postbellum South

Birmingham, AL Birmingham

In the wake of the Confederacy’s defeat, some white leaders of the South sought to modernize the region by promoting 1) sectional reconciliation, 2) a resolution to the region’s race problem, and 3) the creation of a new economic order based on industry, commerce, and a diversified agricultural system. In short, these leaders advocated for […]