Please consider joining us in the coming weeks for events discussing American history. You can find all of our upcoming events in this series, as well as those in our Great American Novel series, here. 

Our next two webinars are:

Join NAS today at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "The Emancipation Proclamation." In this webinar, we ask: Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the war, after several years of fighting? How did it lay the groundwork for the passage of the 13th Amendment? What was the public reaction in the North at the time to the Emancipation Proclamation?

This webinar will feature William Allen, emeritus dean of James Madison College, emeritus professor of political science at Michigan State University, and former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Edna Greene Medford, professor of history and former chair of the Department of History at Howard University; and Jonathan White, associate professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS on Tuesday, October 26th, at 2 pm ET as we discuss "The Reconstruction Era."

Following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency. A southerner and former slave-holder, Johnson advocated for the rapid reassimilation of the southern states into the Union. In pursuit of this, he pressed for southern states to be allowed to determine the rights of former slaves. His policies would come to characterize the Reconstruction Era, as the nation struggled to heal from its years of bitter war.

What were the long-term effects of Reconstruction on American unity? 

This webinar event will feature William Barney, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Forrest Nabors, associate professor and chair of the department of political science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage; and Michael Les Benedict, professor of history emeritus at The Ohio State University.

To read more about this event, click here.

If you can't attend, but would like to receive a recording of any of these events, I encourage you to register anyway. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the event recording.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!