Welcome to book prints, a new Program Sponsored by ambassadors of American History. Im the president of the institute. We are preventing important books in American History which leaves the 18thcentury volumes behind me our current important books by the major prizewinning historians in our country. Also, william roka works on the health and education program. We present each of these historians and guide questions and answer sessions toward the end. Please go to our website, Gilder Lehrman. Com. Good afternoon. On june 14th, welcome, everyone. Todays guest will be professor elizabeth baron. For you guys who are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute, we are so glad you could join us and to tell you a little bit about the Gilder Lehrman instituted is a Nonprofit Organization dedicated to k12 history, education, our mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through educational programs. We also provide direct access to unique primary source materi
Wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we talked about free communities, free folks in the north and how we came with this representation of freedom. Freedom. The question of freedom and what does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean . In particular, what did it mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war, Edward Stanton and general William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were preachers, pastors, lay Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that the freed people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . And what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . The group of 20 people who was ostensibly representative of freed black folks in the community selected garrison frazier, a 67yearold man to be the representative of the community. To speak for them. General sherman asked him what did
For a larger historical. Arrative so for those of you who missed last weeks program, lets talk for a moment about this the , civil war in 50 objects . How did it come about, and how effective do you think it is in conveying the narrative sweep of the civil war in only 50 objects . When i wascame about asked to undertake a project from the historical society. It was a lucky day for me. Someemember, we got to see of the objects only from the conference tables at the historical society. It was a matter of picking representative objects which, as you say, stand in for the big history of the civil war. Story bytem, personal personal story. Valerie it was wonderful to work with you on that project. So our topic this evening is fighting slavery, the bumpy road to block freedom. We will be looking at three objects but speak to the topic. Objectre all paperbased. The 1862 petition to him lincoln , and a veryside small sketch of the arrival of Jefferson Davis to the chickasaw bayou. They are our
Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
The American Historical Association. James this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. Historical context essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. This is a membership supported organization. Anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, never siblings are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. And especially grateful thankful to History Channel four their generous sponsorship of this webinar. Lets get started. It is an honor to introduce todays panelists, Annette Gordon reed. Blight, he studies slavery and abolition. These professors are Pulitzer Prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. They have written and spoken frequently and insightfully on issues relating to monuments, history, memory and our nations contin