Since Perry Miller's 1940 essay on the connection between Puritan theology and Transcendentalism, "From Edwards to Emerson," there has been a dominant model for thinking about the relationship between ...

Historian Margaret Washington discusses antebellum women's rights, partisanship and the press, and wage slavery for the film Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. Middle class women in antebellum ...

The public reaction to the burning of the Nottoway plantation, the largest remaining antebellum-era structure in the South, has been mixed. While many, particularly Black Americans, celebrate the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Virginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley discussed what was included in newspapers during the Antebellum era. The Virginia Center ...

Karen Klink penned “At What Cost, Silence?” the first in a trilogy inspired by the writer’s life. Credit: (Hailey Davis/contributor) A new novel by a local writer is now appearing on the shelves of ...

1. Introduction -- 2. "Is not woman a human being?" : discourses on education in the early national period -- 3. "Cultivating the powers of human beings" : curriculum and pedagogy in schools and ...

User-Created Clip by zlowe June 13, 2024 2024-06-01T14:06:41-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a76/1718309136.jpgVirginia Center for Civil War Studies director ...