Pulitzer prize–winning author Annette Gordon-Reed leads a panel discussion of emancipation, Lincoln, and the Civil War. Panelists include James McPherson, Pulitzer prize–winning historian and professor emeritus at Princeton University; Edward Ayers, Civil War historian and president of the University of Richmond; Eric Foner, author and professor of history, Columbia University; and James Oakes, professor of history, City University of New York and author of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865. A book signing will follow the program. Presented in partnerhip with the National Archives Afro-American History Society.
The panel was introduced by David Ferriero, Chief Archivist of the United States.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James Blanchard (former governor of Maryland), and Tom Wheeler, among others, were in the audience.
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