The End of the American Civil War with Michael Vorenberg
On this special episode of Historians & Their Histories, Megan Kate Nelson sits down with Michael Vorenberg to discuss how he entered the field of history. They also discuss Prof. Vorenberg’s latest publication, Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War, available on March 18, 2025.
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Host:
Megan Kate Nelson, Ph.D. is a historian and writer, an MHS Fellow, and a member of the Boston Environmental History Seminar steering committee. She is the author of four books, including Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner 2022; winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Historical Non-Fiction) and The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020; 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist in History).
Episode Special Guest:
Michael Vorenberg, a former NEH Long-Term Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society, is the author of Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf, available March 18, 2025), as well as Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment, which was a Finalist for the Lincoln Prize and was used as the basis for the screenplay of Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film, Lincoln. A history professor at Brown University, his writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Politico, and the Washington Post.
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