Black Women’s Experience Under Slavery

Crash Course Black History #11: "Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men. Women had a unique vantage point to understand slavery, and were …

Happy Birthday, Maine! Its’ Proud and Integral Contribution to Slavery’s End

March 15, 1820 was the day that Maine joined the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise engineered by House Speaker Henry Clay of KY. That legislation stopped northern attempts to prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state. But Mainers were upset that their state was used to legalize slavery in any …

The Decemberists’ Revolt of 1825: Part of the First Russian Revolution That Failed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAbJcKBTqjk&t=11s The "Union of Salvation" was a 2019 Russian War epic depicting the Decemberists' rebellion of 1825 after the sudden death of Czar Alexander I. While the movie was not historically accurate, it did depict "young and brave officers who wanted changes in the country," one caption-writer said. It was part of the first (stillborn …

How Andrew Jackson Reinvented the Presidency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7OiNxkifX8 AndrewJacksonPBS: "A biography of America's 7th president, ANDREW JACKSON: GOOD, EVIL AND THE PRESIDENCYexplores whether Andrew Jackson is a president Americans should celebrate or apologize for. We discover how Jackson fought in the Revolutionary War when he was just thirteen -- then used what he learned to kill a man over a gambling debt; …

John C. Calhoun, Vice President for Opposing Presidents and Powerful Advocate of State’s Rights, Slavery

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) of South Carolina was a master politician on the national stage for 40 years, serving as vice president to bitter enemies --President John Quincy Adams, from 1825 to 1829 -- and to President Andrew Jackson from 1829 to 1833. He started out his political career in 1810 as a member of …

H.W. Brands on ‘Heirs of the Founders’ and US Senate’s Golden Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr8E23eH74o He is a “master storyteller,” observed the Christian Science Monitor. H. W. Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin (The First American) and Franklin Roosevelt (Traitor to His Class). Exploring such diverse subjects as Aaron Burr, Ronald Reagan, the California gold rush, Andrew Jackson, the Vietnam …

Jon Meacham on ‘American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Wdct2_xIw&t=2753s National Constitution Center: "In 2008, author Jon Meacham appeared at the National Constitution Center to discuss “American Lion,” his Andrew Jackson biography that later won a Pulitzer Prize. National Constitution Center trustee and University of Pennsylvania Professor Richard Beeman moderated the event." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBjevhYyI Talks at Google: "Newsweek editor Jon Meacham visits Google's Mountain View, …

H.W. Brands: Andrew Jackson & Troubled Birth of Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5J2to3j3w UVA Miller Center on American President: "In this video, author H.W. Brands discusses Andrew Jackson and the troubled birth of democracy. Brands is the author of "Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times." This lecture is part of the University of Virginia Miller Center's Historical Presidency Series. Will Hitchcock, the Miller Center's director of research …

Second Most Transformative Election: 1828, Andrew Jackson Beats John Q. Adams

Aside from the Election of 1800, which surprised everyone by ending peacefully, and reducing the Federalist Party to its New England regional base, most historians' lists of dramatic, consequential elections include 1828, a rematch of the 1824 contest between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams after the allegedly "corrupt bargain" that Jackson believed put Adams …

Complicated Legacy of America’s 7th President, Andrew Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGfxyeuy8u8&t=72s This documentary, "Good, Evil, and the Presidency of Andrew Jackson 1824-33" explores the complexity of the legacy of the seventh president. <a href="http://President Jackson and the Indian Removal Bill. He supported moving Native Americans west of the Mississippi. The Indian Removal Bill became the first major focus of his administration. More videos. As numerous …