On C-SPAN: USCHS Spring Symposium 'Emancipation during the Civil War'

C-SPAN Begins Airing Spring Symposium:

Emancipation during the Civil War

The eighth annual conference in the series The National Capital in a Nation Divided: Congress and the District of Columbia Confront Sectionalism and Slavery

C-SPAN recorded the May 5th and 6th Symposium in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and the Capitol Visitor Center and is beginning to broadcast individual talks on American History TV.

For a full American History TV schedule, click here and see the box on the right (scroll down in the box for later times).

Talks are listed by the speaker's name. For more information about all the symposium speakers, including their names and topics, visit the USCHS page announcing the event.

Currently, C-SPAN3's schedule includes:

John Stauffer (Harvard University)

"The Process and Meaning of Emancipation during the War"

Airing: Saturday, July 9 at 6 pm and 10pm; Sunday, July 10 at 11 am

Michael Burlingame (University of Illinois at Springfield)

"Abraham Lincoln: Reluctant Emancipator?"

Airing: Sunday, July 10 at 10 am, 9 pm, and 12 am

C-SPAN aired Gary Gallagher (University of Virginia, "'Wherever our Army Has Been, There Remain No Slaves': Union Military Forces in the Equation of Emancipation") previously, and it is archived on C-SPAN's website.

C-SPAN has tentatively scheduled the remaining symposium presentations:

August 6: Paul Finkelman (Albany Law School, "Constitutionalizing Freedom: Lincoln's Road to Emancipation") and L. Diane Barnes (Youngstown State University and Frederick Douglass Papers, "Frederick Douglass and the Complications of Emancipation")

August 20: Kate Masur (Northwestern University, "The Fugitive Slave Crisis in Washington, D.C.") and Beverly Palmer (Pomona College, Charles Sumner Correspondance, and Thaddeus Stevens Papers; "Stevens, Sumner, and the Journey to Full Emancipation")

September 3: Jenny Wahl (Carleton College, "Double Take: Abolition and the Size of Transferred Property Rights") and Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh, "People and Legislators: Emancipators in Comparative Perspective")

Programs stream online as they air and are available for online viewing anytime the Tuesday after they are broadcast.

Check our website or on American History TV's schedule for future broadcasts.