A House Built By Slaves: African Americans in the White House

2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize winner Jonathan White discusses President Abraham Lincoln's relationship with African Americans during the American Civil War Era. Lincoln kept correspondence with several different individuals and on some occasions even extended his executive power to help ease some of the difficulties many African Americans were dealing with during the war and even after. #americanhistory #civilwar #militaryhistory #military #america #president #abrahamlincoln #lincoln #gettysburgaddress #confederate #union #lecture #historyeducation #history #whitehouse