This week on the Lectures and History podcast, a discussion about President Abraham Lincoln

shifting policies on emancipation during the Civil War. While the Emancipation Proclamation held

immense symbolic significance, it did not have immediate practical implications for the freedom

of enslaved people. Its effectiveness was contingent upon the Union military success

and the eventual defeat of the Confederacy.

Virginia Tech University professor Paul Quigley

shares more about President Lincoln,

the Emancipation Proclamation, and its success right after this.

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Whoa, there.

Victoria's had a Friday night to remember.

But now she's outside in the pouring rain.

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