Union General William T. Sherman’s epic march from Atlanta to the sea remains one of the most astonishing military feats in American history — as well as one of the most controversial. Three historians ask the tough questions — and provide authoritative answers.
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January 2012
Audio
Sherman and the North Advance
January 31st, 2012
1 hour 3 minutes
James M. McPherson, John F. Marszalek, Harold Hozler (moderator)
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January 2012
Audio
SYMPOSIUM: The Age of Revolution: A Whole History - Session 1: The Haitian Revolution and Human Rights, Keynote Address
January 21st, 2012
1 hour 12 minutes
Laurent Dubois
Professor Dubois discusses the ways in which enslaved people shaped the development and application of ideas of equality and human rights during the Age of Revolution.
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January 2012
Audio
SYMPOSIUM: The Age of Revolution: A Whole History - Session 2: Adventures in the Archives—Discovering the Treasures of the Age of Revolution
January 21st, 2012
1 hour 6 minutes
Jeremy D. Popkin, Patrick Tardieu , Julia Gaffield, Ted Widmer (moderator)
Experts explore the challenges and opportunities inherent in the study of the Haitian Revolution, a cataclysmic event that left a particularly complicated paper trail.
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January 2012
Audio
SYMPOSIUM: The Age of Revolution: A Whole History - Session 3: The Caribbean and the United States in the Revolutionary Era
January 21st, 2012
1 hour 6 minutes
J. Michael Dash, Cathy Matson, Ashli White, Ira Berlin (moderator)
Distinguished scholars of the Atlantic world outline the great swells of revolution and the counter-revolutionary undertow that swept across the Atlantic at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
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January 2012
Audio
SYMPOSIUM: The Age of Revolution: A Whole History - Session 4: How Empires End…
January 21st, 2012
41 minutes 8 seconds
Jeremy Adelman, David Armitage, Thomas Bender (moderator)
Experts examine the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions in the context of the Americas, where the last and early nineteenth-century phase of the Atlantic revolutions played out in Latin America, and in the largest context of all: Global History.
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