Executive Decision reviews the most significant presidential decisions in American history: why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making.
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Executive Decision reviews the most significant presidential decisions in American history: why they happened; how they happened; and what they ultimately tell us about the process of decision making.
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December 24, 2022
Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Six: The Last Best Hope on Earth
<p>In this final part of our six part episode on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, we review exactly how Lincoln made his decision--one that was forced upon him by circumstance, and the unwavering insistance of millions of Americans that slavery be abolished, forever.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Audio Clips:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martin Luther King, Jr., excerpt from the “I Have a Dream” speech (1963):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs</span></a></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musical Clips:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Let Jesus Lead You,” The Jubilee Gospel Team (date unknown):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pqx8bkCkL8"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pqx8bkCkL8</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I Be So Happy When The Sun Goes Down,” Ed Lewis:</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” Henry Burr (1911):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQHU3wJq4o"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQHU3wJq4o</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Rock My Soul,” The Heavenly Gospel Singers (1936?):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSkkeceOtFg"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSkkeceOtFg</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’re Coming, Father Abraam” (date unknown):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS5fDOiQJA0"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS5fDOiQJA0</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“CC Rider Blues,” Ma Rainey (1924): </span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtxZgF3Dns"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtxZgF3Dns</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Battle Cry of Freedom,” Vic Bondi (2022):</span> <a href= "https://vicbondi.bandcamp.com/track/battle-cry-of-freedom"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://vicbondi.bandcamp.com/track/battle-cry-of-freedom</span></a></li> </ul> <p> <span>Bibliography:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hans L. Trefousse,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Lincoln’s Decision for Emancipation</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Lippincott, 1975)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">C.</span>Vann Woodward, <span>The Strange Career of Jim Crow</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(1955; Oxford, 2001)</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eric Foner,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(1989; Harper, 2014) </span></li> </ul>
December 24, 2022
Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Five: The Emancipation Decision
<p>On July 8, 1862, Abraham Lincoln journeyed to Harrison's Landing, Virginia, to confer with US General George McCellan on the conduct of the war against the southern insurrection. During the meeting, McCellan delivered Lincoln a memorandum that instructed him to abandon any effort to liberate the four million slaves in America. Lincoln responded by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, and by sacking McCellan. In part five of our analysis of the decision to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation, we review this meeting, and the other factors that went into delivering this most momentous decision in American history.</p> <p><strong>Part 5: The Emancipation Decision</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Audio Clips:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christie S. Coleman, “The Civil War and The End of Slavery,” R.H. Smith Center for the Constitution:</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4nh5ZeKWJY"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4nh5ZeKWJY</span></a></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musical Clips</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Garry Owen”</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell:</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM48Qzn1eGQ"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM48Qzn1eGQ</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Long John,”</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Prisoners of Darrington State Prison Farm, Texas (1933/34?):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5KtQynWvc"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5KtQynWvc</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Reinald Werrenrath (Viktor, 1917):</span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPPr_AilTM"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPPr_AilTM</span></a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” Henry Burr (1911):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQHU3wJq4o"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQHU3wJq4o</span></a></li> </ul> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Bibliography:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Herbert Donald,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Lincoln</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Simon & Schuster, 1996)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allen C. Guelzo,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Simon & Schuster, 2006)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todd Brewster</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Lincoln's Gamble: How the Emancipation Proclamation Changed the Course of the Civil War</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Scribner, 2014)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eric Foner</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Norton, 2010)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richard Blackett,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Divided Hearts. Britain and the American Civil War</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Louisiana State University Press, 2001) </span></li> </ul>
December 24, 2022
Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation Part Four: The War to Expand Slavery
<p>In part four of our episode on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation we review the causes of the Civil War, and the momentous events of the 1850s, especially the Fugutive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision, which rallied northern opinion against the expansion of slavery, and the southerners who insisted on that expansion--even into the North.</p> <p><strong>Part 4: The War to Expand Slavery</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Audio Clips:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richard Blackett, “The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law,” talk given to the The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (2018)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkzMFXlyjqo&t=164s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkzMFXlyjqo&t=164s</a></span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musical Clips:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Early in the Mornin’,” Prisoners of Parchman Farm, Louisiana (1947):</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q</span></a></li> </ul> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Bibliography:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">David M. Potter,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Impending Crisis</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Harper, 1976)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eric Foner,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Oxford, 1970)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richard Blackett,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and Politics of Slavery</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Cambridge Press, 2018)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrew Delbanco,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Penguin, 2018)</span></li> </ul>
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