Part 2 - Seventy-five years before the Lincoln Presidential Museum opened in Springfield, a small jewel of a museum was launched in northeast Indiana. Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum, talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.

Part 3 - Seventy-five years before the Lincoln Presidential Museum opened in Springfield, a small jewel of a museum was launched in northeast Indiana. Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum, talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.

In 1865, Jefferson Davis was the leader of a failed experiment in creating a new nation, hated by his enemies and despised by his own people for losing the war. By the first decade of the 20th century, Davis had joined the beloved Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as the third member of the Confederate pantheon. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes how this transformation took place.

Part 2 - In 1865, Jefferson Davis was the leader of a failed experiment in creating a new nation, hated by his enemies and despised by his own people for losing the war. By the first decade of the 20th century, Davis had joined the beloved Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as the third member of the Confederate pantheon. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes how this transformation took place.

Part 3 - In 1865, Jefferson Davis was the leader of a failed experiment in creating a new nation, hated by his enemies and despised by his own people for losing the war. By the first decade of the 20th century, Davis had joined the beloved Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as the third member of the Confederate pantheon. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes how this transformation took place.

If you haven't been to Gettysburg in a while, you may not realize how much has changed, much for the better! Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery.

Part 3 - If you haven't been to Gettysburg in a while, you may not realize how much has changed, much for the better! Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery.

Part 2 - If you haven't been to Gettysburg in a while, you may not realize how much has changed, much for the better! Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery.

Based on years of archival research, as well as personal experience as an embedded journalist with US forces in Iraq, Richard F. Miller has written a new kind of regimental history that focuses on the social and class identities of officers in a unit made up of equal parts Harvard-educated Boston brahmins and working class immigrants from Ireland and the German states. How these disparate groups united under the pressure of war and the leadership of their officers is the dramatic story Miller tells in Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Part 2 - Based on years of archival research, as well as personal experience as an embedded journalist with US forces in Iraq, Richard F. Miller has written a new kind of regimental history that focuses on the social and class identities of officers in a unit made up of equal parts Harvard-educated Boston brahmins and working class immigrants from Ireland and the German states. How these disparate groups united under the pressure of war and the leadership of their officers is the dramatic story Miller tells in Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.