An Interview with Michael David Cohen

 

Our conversation with Michael David Cohen, an assistant research professor of history at the University of Tennessee and author of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War published by the University of Virginia Press. Cohen discusses the dramatic changes that the conflict brought to northern and southern campuses, both during the war years and into the end of the 19th century.

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Three Hundred Thousand More

Good afternoon! Today we bring you an 1862 song written by John S. Gibbons, to aid Lincoln’s call for 300,000 more Union troops. It first appeared in the New York…