Taking Questions: A Discussion Series
A Conversation with Historian, Larry Balsamo
Area of expertise: The South, The Civil War Era, Abraham Lincoln, and Civil Rights
Keep learning! Here are a few resources for further exploration.
Music
Music of the Civil War: Explore music’s important role in the American Civil War from The Kennedy Center
Movies
Birth of a Nation, 1915
Red Badge of Courage, 1951
Friendly Persuasion, 1956
Glory, 1989
The Civil War, Ken Burns, 1990
Cold Mountain, 2003
Lincoln, 2012
12 Years a Slave, 2013
|Harriet, 2019
Podcasts and Videos
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
With David W. Blight, Yale Open Courses
Who were the ‘Wide Awakes? by Civil War Digital Digest
Articles, Archives, and other materials
The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/
Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, February 2012
The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014
Books
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852
The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln’s Army, by Bruce Catton (1951)
The Civil War: A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville, by Shelby Foote (1963)
Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War, Edited by Patricia Faust (1986)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James McPherson (1988)
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary of Elijah Hunt Rhodes, by Robert Rhodes (1992)
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, by Philips S. Paludan (1994)
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War, Edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland
Fredrick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight (2018)
This Infernal War: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard, by Thomthy Roberts (2018)
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2019)
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, by David S. Reynolds (2020)