[Free Registration/Login Required] Brief video lecture presented by Ira Berlin identifying the fine difference between a society with slaves and a slave society. [1:59]

This Khan Academy resource is a video lesson [8:27] that discusses the implications of the Fugitive Slave Law.

This Khan Academy resource provides a video lesson [6:19] that provides a plot summary and analysis of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. This lesson emphasizes the impact of this book on American readers. The lesson is accompanied with a...

Covers the period right after the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 but before he is inaugurated in March. During that time, the Southern states formed the Confederacy and seceded in an effort to preserve the system of...

Slavery wasn't just a Southern problem. It was a big problem for the North, too. [1 min. 12 secs.]

[Free Registration/Login Required] Professor Catherine Clinton, of Queens University Belfast, delivers a presentation about the life of Harriet Tubman and her quest for freedom. [33:11]

How did Northerners, Southerners, and the international community receive Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel? Kim and Becca discuss the reception and far-reaching consequences of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. [7:09]

In this video, historian Joe Ellis and Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson discuss George Washington and his involvement in the founding of the United States of America. [4:29]

This video introduces the 'Founding Fathers'as brilliant but flawed human beings. [7:16]

Lynne Cheney, author of "James Madison: A Life Reconsidered" in conversation with Walter Isaacson of the Aspen Institute about the friendship between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. [3:37]

In this short documentary film, students in classes at Georgetown University reflect on a trip they took to Louisiana in March 2018 to meet with members of the GU272 descendant community, visit Whitney Plantation and the site of Homer...

In the period after the Civil War in the American South, when Southern society reorganized to account for the end of slavery. In this video, Kim discusses how many Southern governments passed laws preventing African Americans from...

The 1857 Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford inflamed sectional tensions over slavery and propelled the United States toward civil war.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, reopened the debate over the expansion of slavery in the United States.

How did regional differences between the North and South related to slavery lead to tensions in the years leading up to the Civil War? Kim compares the economic and ideological differences that drove the sections apart. [8:27]

This is a reader's theater performance of a scene from George Aiken's 19th-century dramatization of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin involving the escaped slave Eliza, her husband George, and their friend Phineas. Included are teaching tips...

An overview of Nathan Bacon's rebellion against the House of Burgesses and how this event led the colony of Virginia from a system of indentured servitude to system of African slavery.

A monologue scene featuring a drama professor as 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay discussing his stand on slavery, a stance that was both politically and personally troubling to him.

This video is a brief overview of the Dred Scott vs. Sandford case that had major consequences on the definition of citizenship in the United States. [7:48]

A website companion to PBS Frontline looks at Jefferson and his possible relationship with his slave Sally Hemings.

Traces the causes of the Civil War, including the abolitionist movement, debates between the North and the South over slavery, the economic roots of the slave system, political divisions between free and slave states, and the Dred Scott...

In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about America's "peculiar institution," slavery. I wouldn't really call it peculiar. I'd lean more toward horrifying and depressing institution, but nobody asked me. John will talk about...

In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery. John investigates when and where slavery originated, how it changed over the centuries, and how Europeans and colonists in the...

In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about the election of 1860. The tensions between the North and South were rising, ultimately due to the single issue of slavery. The North wanted to abolish slavery, and the South wanted...