Annette Gordon-Reed, Civil War Symposium at Transylvania University

As part of Transylvania University's Civil War Symposium, Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law and history at Harvard University, looks at themes involving the Reconstruction period, primarily through an analysis of the attitudes and policies of Andrew Johnson, who became president upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Produced by Michael Breeding Media.

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Education

Tags:

• aftermath of Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson
• Frederick Douglas
• March 4
• 1865
• professor of history