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 […]

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 […]