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Abraham Lincoln

• Videos by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Roots of the Abolitionist Movement
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of Free Labor
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Race and Slavery
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Race
  • Lincoln and Abolitionism
  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
• Videos by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Abraham Lincoln's Changing Attitude Towards Slavery
  • Abraham Lincoln and the African-American Colonization Movement
• Videos by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
  • Abraham Lincoln as an Historical Figure
  • Lincoln's Ideas About Race
• Videos by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
  • Abraham Lincoln's Religious Beliefs and Public Life
  • Abraham Lincoln's Attitudes Toward Race and Slavery
  • Abraham Lincoln, Women, and Politics
  • Abraham Lincoln's Militia Service in the Black Hawk War
  • Lincoln's Ambitions and Attitudes Toward Frontier Life
  • Lincoln the Whig
  • Lincoln's Political Rhetoric and the Growth of American Democracy
• Lincoln's Religious Beliefs, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Mary Todd Lincoln's Frontier Life, by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
• Lincoln and Black Hawk
  • Introduction
  • Black Hawk — "I am a Sauk"
  • Lincoln and the Frontier, I
  • Black Hawk and the Northwest
  • Lincoln and the Frontier, II
  • Lincoln and Native Americans
  • Origins of the Black Hawk War, I
  • Origins of the Black Hawk War, II
  • Origins of the Black Hawk War, III
  • Black Hawk Crosses the Mississippi, 1832
  • The Militia Responds
  • Stillman's Run
  • Black Hawk's Flight
  • Massacre at Bad Axe
  • Black Hawk in Captivity
  • Lincoln and the Black Hawk War
  • Lincoln, the Black Hawk War, and Myth
  • Epilogue

African-American Experience and American Racial Attitudes

• Videos by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Abraham Lincoln as an Historical Figure
• Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
• Free Blacks in the Antebellum North
• Lincoln's Ideas About Race
• Videos by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
  • Abolitionism and Women's Changing Public Roles
  • The Formation of Anti-Slavery Societies in the Antebellum North
• Videos by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Abraham Lincoln's Changing Attitude Towards Slavery
  • Abraham Lincoln and the African-American Colonization Movement
  • Abolitionism in Antebellum Illinois
  • African-Americans and Black Codes in the Antebellum North
  • Free Blacks in the Antebellum North
  • Slavery and the Sectional Crisis of the 1850
  • The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
• Videos by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Race and Slavery
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Race
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Roots of the Abolitionist Movement
  • Frontier Settlement and the Vision of an All-White Society
  • Free Blacks, Colonization, and the Roots of Abolitionism
  • Fugitive Slaves and the Compromise of 1850
  • Lincoln and Abolitionism
  • The Dred Scott Decision of 1857
  • The Dred Scott Decision and National Politics
• Videos by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • The Law of Slavery
  • The Dred Scott Case, Part 1: Background
  • The Dred Scott Case, Part 2: Taney's Decision
• Videos by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
• Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the American Women's Rights Movement,
• Free Black Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement
• Videos by Edward L. Ayers, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • Southerners on the Frontier
  • The Movement of African-American Colonization
• Abraham Lincoln's Attitude Toward Race and Slavery, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Wade in the Water: The Underground Railroad and DeKalb County, Illinois, part I.
• Wade in the Water: The Underground Railroad and DeKalb County, Illinois, part II.
• Wade in the Water: The Underground Railroad and DeKalb County, Illinois, part III.

Economic Development and Labor

• Videos by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
• Family Life and the Development of the Middle Classes in the Antebellum America
• Women's Changing Roles in Immigrant Families
• Videos by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • Banks in Antebellum Illinois
  • Brunson v. Kedzie: The Law of Contracts and Frontier Settlement
  • Commercial Law and the Settlement of the Frontier
  • Law and Commerce on the Frontier
  • Public Land Law and the Settlement of the Frontier
  • Whig Political Ideas
• Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of Free Labor, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Lincoln the Whig, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.

Frontier Settlement

• Videos by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • Brunson v. Kedzie: The Law of Contracts and Frontier Settlement
  • Commercial Law and the Settlement of the Frontier
  • Law and Commerce on the Frontier
  • Public Land Law and the Settlement of the Frontier
• Vidoes by Michael F. Holt, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • Origins of the Compromise of 1850
  • Stephen Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Vidoes by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
  • The Settlement of Illinois
  • Singing on the Illinois Frontier
• The Expansion of Slavery, White Racial Attitudes, and the Settlement of Illinois, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Mary Todd Lincoln's Frontier Life, by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
• Education, Culture, and the Patterns of Frontier Settlement, by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
• African-Americans and Black Codes in the Antebellum North, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Frontier Settlement and the Vision of an All-White Society, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Lincoln's Ambitions and Attitudes Toward Frontier Life, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Southerners on the Frontier, by Edward L. Ayers, Ph.D., University of Virginia.

Law and Society

• Vidoes by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
  • The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
  • African-Americans and Black Codes in the Antebellum North
• Videos by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Fugitive Slaves and the Compromise of 1850
• The Dred Scott Decision of 1857
• The Dred Scott Decision and National Politics
• Videos by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
  • Brunson v. Kedzie: The Law of Contracts and Frontier Settlement
  • Commercial Law and the Settlement of the Frontier
  • Law and Commerce on the Frontier
  • Public Land Law and the Settlement of the Frontier
  • The Law of Slavery
  • The Dred Scott Case, Part 1: Background
  • The Dred Scott Case, Part 2: Taney's Decision
• Law and Society in Frontier Illinois, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Abraham Lincoln's Attitudes Toward Race and Slavery, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.

Native American Relations

• Videos by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
  • Andrew Jackson and Federal Indian Policy
  • Native Americans and War Scares on the Frontier
  • Native Americans and the French Empire in the Illinois Country
  • Origins of the Black Hawk War
  • Overview of the Black Hawk War
  • Settlement of the Northwest Territory
  • Tecumseh
• Settlers and Native Americans Before the Black Hawk War, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Frontier Settlement and the Vision of an All-White Society, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln's Militia Service in the Black Hawk War, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Lincoln and Black Hawk
  • Introduction
  • Black Hawk — "I am a Sauk"
  • Lincoln and the Frontier, I
  • Black Hawk and the Northwest
  • Lincoln and the Frontier, II
  • Lincoln and Native Americans
  • Origins of the Black Hawk War, I
  • Origins of the Black Hawk War, II
  • Origins of the Black Hawk War, III
  • Black Hawk Crosses the Mississippi, 1832
  • The Militia Responds
  • Stillman's Run
  • Black Hawk's Flight
  • Massacre at Bad Axe
  • Black Hawk in Captivity
  • Lincoln and the Black Hawk War
  • Lincoln, the Black Hawk War, and Myth
  • Epilogue

Political Development

• Vidoes by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Abraham Lincoln's Changing Attitude Towards Slavery
  • Slavery and the Sectional Crisis of the 1850
  • The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
• Vidoes by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
  • Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the American Women's Rights Movement
  • Women and Political Activity in the Antebellum Whig Party
  • Free Black Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement
• Vidoes by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of Free Labor
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Race and Slavery
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Race
  • Free Blacks, Colonization, and the Roots of Abolitionism
  • Frontier Settlement and the Vision of an All-White Society
  • Fugitive Slaves and the Compromise of 1850
  • Lincoln and Abolitionism
  • Nineteenth Century American Political Culture
  • The Dred Scott Decision of 1857
  • The Dred Scott Decision and National Politics
  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
• Videos by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
  • Abraham Lincoln's Religious Beliefs and Public Life
  • Abraham Lincoln, Women, and Politics
  • Antebellum Politics as Popular Entertainment
  • Lincoln the Whig
  • Lincoln's Political Rhetoric and the Growth of American Democracy
• Vidoes by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Banks in Antebellum Illinois
• The Dred Scott Case, Part 1: Background
• The Dred Scott Case, Part 2: Taney's Decision
• Whig Political Ideas
• Videos by Michael F. Holt, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
  • Origins of the Compromise of 1850
  • Stephen Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • The Second Party System in American Politics
  • Women's Roles in Whig Politics,
• John Brown's Raid and the American Sectional Crisis, by Edward L. Ayers, Ph.D., University of Virginia.

Race and Ethnicity

• Politics in Illinois During the Civil War, Part II

Religion and Culture

• Videos by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
  • Lincoln's Religious Beliefs
  • Religion on the Illinois Frontier
  • Singing on the Illinois Frontier
• Videos by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
  • Abolitionism in Antebellum Illinois
  • The Formation of Anti-Slavery Societies in the Antebellum North
  • The Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Social Reform
• Videos by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
  • Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the American Women's Rights Movement
  • Education, Culture, and the Patterns of Frontier Settlement
  • Family Life and the Development of the Middle Classes in the Antebellum America
  • Free Black Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement
  • Women's Changing Roles in Immigrant Families
  • Women Churches and the Development of Antebellum Social Reform Movement
  • Women and Political Activity in the Antebellum Whig Party
• Videos by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Roots of the Abolitionist Movement
  • Lincoln and Abolitionism
  • Nineteenth Century American Political Culture
• Videos by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
  • Antebellum Politics as Popular Entertainment
  • Abraham Lincoln's Religious Beliefs and Public Life
  • Lincoln's Political Rhetoric and the Growth of American Democracy
• Southerners on the Frontier, by Edward L. Ayers, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Wade in the Water: The Underground Railroad and DeKalb County, Illinois, part I.
• Wade in the Water: The Underground Railroad and DeKalb County, Illinois, part II.
• Wade in the Water: The Underground Railroad and DeKalb County, Illinois, part III.

Women and Gender

• Videos by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
  • Abolitionism and Women's Changing Public Roles
  • Changing Gender Roles in the Antebellum Period
  • Mary Todd Lincoln's Frontier Life
  • The Formation of Anti-Slavery Societies in the Antebellum North
• Videos by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton.
  • Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the American Women's Rights Movement
  • Family Life and the Development of the Middle Classes in the Antebellum America
  • Free Black Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement
  • Women's Changing Roles in Immigrant Families
  • Women, Churches and the Development of Antebellum Social Reform Movement
  • Women and Political Activity in the Antebellum Whig Party
• Abraham Lincoln, Women, and Politics, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Singing on the Illinois Frontier, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Women's Roles in Whig Politics, by Michael F. Holt, Ph.D., University of Virginia.

Slide Shows

• Lincoln and American Party Politics.
• Native Americans in Illinois.
• Frontier Settlement.
• Women's Experience and Gender Roles.
• African-American Experience and American Racial Attitudes.
• Economic Development.
• Religion and Culture.
• Law and Society.
• Lincoln's Biography
  • Introduction Part I.
  • Introduction Part II.
  • Boyhood and Migration, 1809-1830.
  • Indian Fighting and Politics in New Salem, 1831-1836.
  • Springfield, the Law and the Whig Party, 1837-1843.
  • Congress and the Mexican War, 1844-1849.
  • Return to the Law, 1850-1853.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1854-1856.
  • Debating Douglas on the National Stage, 1857-1858.
  • The Campaign of the Century, 1859-1861.

Civil War

• Videos by John Y. Simon, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association
  • Grant Seizes Paducah
  • The Defense of Cairo
  • The Campaign for Forts Henry and Donelson, Part I
  • The Campaign for Forts Henry and Donelson, Part II
  • The Battle of Shiloh, Part I
  • The Battle of Shiloh, Part II
  • The Campaign of Vicksburg
  • The Deployment of Illinois Troops
  • Politics in Illinois During the Civil War, Part I
  • Politics in Illinois During the Civil War, Part II
  • Ulysses S. Grant's Early Years
  • Ulysses S. Grant's First Command

Prarie Fire

• Settlers and Native Americans Before the Black Hawk War, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Videos by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
  • Gender Roles and the Economics of Native American Society
  • Marquette and the Jesuits
  • New France and the Economics of the Fur Trade
  • Overview of the Illinois Country, ca. 1674
  • Pays d'en Haut: The Upper Country
  • The Illinois Confederacy
  • The Coming of the Iroquois
  • The Fur Trade - Part 1
  • The Fur Trade - Part 2
  • The Fur Trade - Part 3
  • The Journeys of LaSalle
  • The Jesuit Relations
• Videos by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
  • Settlement of the Northwest Territory
  • Native Americans and the French Empire in the Illinois Country

Gilded Age

• Videos by Michael Kazin, Ph.D., Georgetown University.
  • Major Political Issues of the Gilded Age: The Tariff
  • Major Political Issues of the Gilded Age: Railroad Transportation
  • The Presidential Campaign of 1896, Part 1
  • The Presidential Campaign of 1896, Part 2
  • The Results of the Election of 1896
  • The People's Party
  • William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic National Convention of 1896
  • William McKinley and the Republican Party
• Videos by Maureen Flanagan, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
  • Bringing the World's Columbian Exposition to Chicago
  • Chicago's Response to the Great Fire, Part 1
  • Chicago's Response to the Great Fire, Part 2
  • Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition
  • Government and Reform in Chicago
  • Machine Politics and Social Welfare in Chicago
  • The Founding of Hull House
  • Hull House and Political Reform
  • Women and Public Affairs in Gilded Age Chicago, Part 1
  • Women and Public Affairs in Gilded Age Chicago, Part 2
  • Women's Suffrage Movement in Chicago
• Videos by James Gilbert, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park.
  • Chicago's Place in American Culture, 1871-1896
  • Chicago's High Culture, 1871-1896
  • Dwight L. Moody: Evangelical Religion
  • George Pullman and the Great Strike of 1894
  • John Dewey and Hull House
  • The White City and the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition
  • Uses of Culture in Chicago
• Videos by Patricia Schechter, Ph.D., Portland State University.
  • Ida B. Wells: Early Life
  • Ida B. Wells: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
  • Ida B. Wells: Memphis, Tennessee
  • Ida B. Wells: Pushing Against Boundaries
  • Ida B. Wells: Triple Murder
  • Ida B. Wells: Response to Lynching
  • Ida B. Wells: A Public Figure
  • Ida B. Wells: 1895, New Leadership
  • Ida B. Wells: Conflict with White Woman's Organizations
  • Ida B. Wells: Ferdinand Barnett
  • Ida B. Wells: Chicago, Illinois
  • Ida B. Wells: Changing Roles
  • Ida B. Wells: Her Legacy, I
  • Ida B. Wells: Her Legacy, II
• Videos by Richard Schneirov, Ph.D., Indiana State University.
  • The "Labor Question" in Gilded Age America
  • American Railroads and Economic Development in the Gilded Age
  • George Pullman and the Pullman Palace Car
  • Pullman, Illinois: Company Town
  • Origins of the Pullman Strike, I
  • Origins of the Pullman Strike, II
  • Origins of the Pullman Strike, III
  • George Pullman's Response to the Strike
  • The Federal Injunction
  • Debs's Defiance and the Demise of the Pullman Strike
  • Significance of the Pullman Strike, I
  • Significance of the Pullman Strike, II
  • George Pullman's Legacy
• Videos from the documentary, John Peter Altgeld: The Eagle Remembered, a production of Dr. Jeffrey Chown of the Northern Illinois University Department of Communication.
  • Introduction
  • Early Life I
  • Early Life II
  • The Climate of Anarchism I
  • The Climate of Anarchism II
  • The Eagle Rises
  • The Pardon
  • The Pullman Stike
  • The 1896 Democratic Convention
  • Conclusion

Getting the Message Out!

• Videos by Michael F. Holt, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
  • The Second Party System
  • Women's Roles in Whig Politics
• Videos by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
  • Antebellum Politics as Popular Entertainment
• Videos by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
  • Nineteenth Century American Political Culture, by Eric Foner
• Videos by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton.
  • Women and Political Activity in the Antebellum Whig Party

Mark Twain

• Videos by Gregg Camfield, University of the Pacific
  • Samuel Clemens, River Pilot, Part I
  • Samuel Clemens, River Pilot, Part II
  • Horace Bixby
  • River Transportation and Economic Development
  • Steamboat Racing, Part I
  • Steamboat Racing, Part II
  • Samuel Clemens and the Law
  • Remember the Mississippi
  • The Mississippi Changing Course
  • River Life
  • Leaving the River
  • Steamboats and Railroads
  • The Ambivalent Mark Twain
  • Samuel Clemens, The Publishing Business
  • Returning to the River
  • Mark Twain and the Post-war South
  • Retreat of the Steamboats
  • Steamboat Accidents
  • From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain
  • Olivia Langdon Clemens
  • Christianity and Courtship
  • Mark Twain and the Genteel Tradition
  • Mark Twain and Race Relations
  • Mark Twain and Native Americans

• Videos by Shelly Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University
  • The Young Sam Clemens
  • Powers of Observation
  • Always a New River
  • Mark Twain and American Racial Attitudes
  • Hartford, Connecticut
  • Myth and Reality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Videos by Bob Hirst, University of California, Berkeley
  • River Pilot as King
  • Life on the Mississippi
  • River Characters
  • Remembering the River
  • Go West
  • Samuel Clemens, Businessman
  • Getting Started as a Writer
  • Mark Twain and American Letters
  • Samuel & Olivia
  • Nook Farm
  • Mark Twain and Slavery
  • Native Americans
  
  
• Videos from the documentary film, Mark Twain and the American Steamboat, a production of Marcus Leshock of the Northern Illinois University Department of Communication.
  • Introduction
  • The Rise of the Steamboat, Part I
  • The Rise of the Steamboat, Part II
  • Samuel Clemens, Apprentice Pilot
  • Excitement and Danger on the River
  • Leaving the River
  • Mark Twain Returns to the River

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