Race and Politics in the American Civil War

FAIN: ES-50540-13

New York Historical (New York, NY 10024-5152)
Mia Nagawiecki (Project Director: March 2013 to April 2015)

A two-week summer institute for thirty school teachers on the political context of the Civil War and the centrality of racial issues during the conflict.

The proposed Institute "Race and Politics in the American Civil War" will convene 30 educators, nine renowned scholars, and the vast treasures of the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS)’s collections for a two-week summer institute in July 2014. The Institute will engage school teachers in deep primary source research, groundbreaking new scholarship, dialogue with leaders in the field, and meaningful curriculum projects to examine the centrality of racial issues in the politics of the Civil War, and determine how politics and policies evolved over the course of these arduous four years to fundamentally reshape American democracy. The Institute will be led by Co-Directors Harold Holzer, historian and leading authority on Abraham Lincoln, and Mia Nagawiecki, N-YHS Director of Education.