Podcasts History BackStory 221: The Thin Light of Freedom

221: The Thin Light of Freedom

Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 6:18 p.m.

Brian sits down with Ed to talk about a project of his that\u2019s been twenty-five years in the making. We\u2019re talking about Ed\u2019s series on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The first volume, In The Presence of Mine Enemies came out in 2003, and won the Bancroft Prize. \xa0It opened with John Brown\u2019s raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, and ended just before the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.\xa0
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\nEd has just published the second volume in the series: The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America. He picks up the story in 1863, and continues through 1870 and the ratification of the 15th Amendment.\xa0
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