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Opiate Addiction in the Civil War's Aftermath
Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
On January 25, 2018, Jonathan W. White delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War.”
On March 9...
Play ball! America’s Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War
On August 29, 2019, Alexander F. Barnes delivered the Banner Lecture, “Play ball! America's Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War.” In...
Pocahontas – Religion and Faith (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 2)
Few figures from the American past are better known than the young Powhatan woman who has come down to us as “Pocahontas.” Her fame began in her own...
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
On May 24, 2007, Ms. Pryor delivered this lecture on her book, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Private Letters.
Since his...
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
On May 7 at noon, S. C. Gwynne delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson."
Stonew...
Reconciliation
Reconstruction
Religion and the Marriage of Bazile & Bowcock
Retired Wake Forest University Law Professor Beth Hopkins on civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates
This recording is of a past program by the John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics, as part of a series featuring constitutional...
Richmond in the Midst of the Civil War
Richmond’s part in the early automobile and racing industries
Robert E. Lee after the War
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
On May 5, 2021, Ty Seidule showcased why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier...
Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership by Noah Andre Trudeau
On January 28, 2010, Noah Andre Trudeau delivered a lecture on his book Robert E. Lee. Almost 150 years after the fact, Robert E. Lee remains a...
Robert Edward Lee
Robert Knox Sneden Chronology
Robert Knox Sneden's Dispatch Case
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
On October 1, 2019, Kevin M. Levin delivered a Banner Lecture entitled, “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth.”
Mor...