Topic #7 Antebellum Reform

Nat Turner
This month we celebrate Black History. Bryan Le Beau’s guest this week, Ken Greenberg, discusses Nat Turner, leader of the slave rebellion in August 1831, and perhaps one of the least understood figures in American history. Ken Greenberg is author of Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory and writer, co-producer for "A Troublesome Property," a documentary about Nat Turner. Airdate: February 7, 2005

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, published in 1845, after Douglass escaped from slavery, became an international best seller, as well as a rallying pint for the abolitionist movement in the United States. Our guest this week, William L. Andrews, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examines Douglass’s autobiography as a source of information on the man and the institution. This segment of the show comes to us courtesy of Talking History’s new partner, The Teacher as Historian, which is produced at WNYE – FM in New York City. Airdate:January 5, 2004.

Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad has become an American legend. Catherine Clinton joins host Bryan Le Beau to discuss the real woman behind the legend. Clinton is author of the new biography Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Airdate: March 6, 2006.


Ladies Rights
The show originally aired the week of September 15th, 2003, and featured an interview with Talking History's Fred Nielsen and Linda K. Kerber, OAH past president and author of No Constitutional Right to be Ladies :Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. In the show Linda Kerber and Fred Nielsen addressed the question: "Do women have the constitutional right to be ladies?" Airdate: August 9, 2004.