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African Americans History Civil rights United States Constitutional history United States Constitutional law United States History Indians of North America History Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Reconstruction (U.S.history, 1865-1877) Reconstruction (US history, 1865-1877) United States History 19th century United States History Civil War, 1861-1865Summary: Uncover the events leading up to the tragic assassination of President Abraham Lincoln with this A&E Special. This program untangles the myths and misconceptions, and offers a deeper understanding of the emotional state of the country in April, 1865, that precipitated such an act of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: When Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, he set in motion a process of emancipation that is still unfolding today. This classic program-filled with location footage, archival photos, and excerpts from speeches, diaries, letters, and newspapers-documents Lincoln's life while emphasizing his contributions to the struggle for racial equality. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leon Litwack; Lincoln...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program examines the legal issues relevant to the 13th Amendment and the controversy surrounding its passage. Legal experts explain the basis of the debate; historical reenactments of those debates provide viewers with insights into its social and economic underpinnings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil War. During this program viewers face the questions that could win or lose the war from the viewpoint of commanding generals Lee and Meade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This program covers the Battle of Antietam which was fought on September 17, 1862. Eleven hours of fighting produced over 23,000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Union officer Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain achieved fame at the Battle of Gettysburg for his valiant defense of a hill named Little Round Top. For his gallantry, he was awarded the Medal of Honor and given the honor of commanding the Union troops at the surrender ceremony for the infantry of Robert E. Lee's Army at Appomattox, Virginia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program examines the impact of slavery and the Civil War in the West. Viewers learn about “Bleeding Kansas,” the “Gettysburg of the West,” and how the end of the fighting brought on the beginning of the military campaign against Indians. Included are portrayals of individuals who resisted federal authority, such as Brigham Young and Black Kettle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: An Emmy® award-winning program, this episode from the PBS American Experience collection investigates the 1876 event that has become American folklore—the Battle of Little Big Horn—also known as “Custer's Last Stand.” Using journals, oral accounts, and Native American ledger drawings as well as archival and feature films, this program explores this watershed moment from two views: white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: The History Channel’s acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This program chronicles how in 1862 the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimac) clash, changing naval...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: For more than a century, Civil War battlefields have stood as important reminders of a time when America, tearing itself apart over sectional differences, nearly ceased to be. But the ever-increasing suburban sprawl along America's eastern seaboard is rapidly encroaching on these hallowed sites. This program travels to the most threatened sites to draw attention to a new war: a struggle between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: As the strain of total war increased on both sides, the Union and Confederacy each bitterly fought on in an effort to break the other's will. Topics in this program range from draft riots in the North and the Union's recruitment of African-Americans, to the hardships imposed on the South by the ongoing coastal blockade and Sherman's March to the Sea, to the wartime leadership of Lincoln and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Obscured by competing images stemming from popular and revisionist history, the real Abraham Lincoln can be difficult to know. In this program, three leading American historians-Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald, of Harvard University; Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Boorstin, of the Library of Congress; and Eric Foner, of Columbia University-join syndicated columnist and author Ben...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Between 1790 and 1860, thousands of slaves fled the South for liberation on the "Underground Railroad," a system of invisible tracks and anonymous conductors who gave shelter to fugitive slaves. Through interviews with national experts, and examination of archival records and artifacts, this program provides an overview of the underground movement. In addition to interviews with descendants of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Since the penning of the Declaration of Independence, America had been steadily evolving into two distinctly different societies-and by 1861, sectional differences had reached the flashpoint. This program addresses abolitionist fervor in the industrialized North; the rising clamor for secession in the antebellum South, an agrarian economy transfigured by the cotton gin; and the political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The Union's victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg marked a crucial turning point in the Civil War. This program thoroughly examines those pivotal campaigns, along with the Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation on both the North and South, problems within the Jefferson Davis administration, the beginnings of dissent in the South, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: American hero or violent outlaw? The story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished and wrong-headed myths. So the legend goes, he was a Western outlaw, but in reality, he never went west. He has been called America's own Robin Hood, yet he robbed both rich and poor, and was never seen to share his ill-gotten gains. Less heroic than brutal, James was a product of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Martyr, madman…and murderer. John Brown led a righteous crusade against the evils of slavery yet used horrifying violence to carry out his mission. He was an extremist who was as controversial and misunderstood in the mid-1800s as he is to this very day. To his supporters, John Brown was a saint; to his opponents he was an insane murderer. His 1859 raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry sparked a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, re-enactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This program profiles the enigmatic Union general called “Little Mac” by his men. McClellan's soldiers were highly skilled but seldom fought,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: Although slavery was abolished in New York State on July 4th, 1827, America's slave-based cotton trade was not, as bales from the South continued to enter New York City for transshipment to Europe. In this program, James Oliver Horton, historian emeritus at the Smithsonian, talks with NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill about slavery's impact on New York City during the first half of the 19th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This episode looks at the unconventional volunteer troops known as Zouaves who copied their light infantry tactics, drills, daring,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The U.S. Constitution is the world's oldest written charter of government in continuous effect. Much of the success of this document can be attributed to the way the Constitution has changed to meet the needs of the American people. The framers of the Constitution wisely anticipated the need to make changes to the Constitution as the world itself changed. Between 1787, when the Constitution was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The History Channel’s acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This program recounts how General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces bombarded and starved the town of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996