Presenters
Dr. Richard J. M. Blackett is Andrew Jackson Professor of History and is a specialist in US and Caribbean history, particularly of the transatlantic movements that worked to abolish slavery. His most recent book, Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War, looks at popular reactions to the war in Britain and what impact they had on the struggle for political reform. He is at work on a study of the ways northern communities organized to resist the enforcement of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.
 

Myra Luffman is a member of the education staff at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History which promotes the study and love of American history. The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public. It helps create history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, sponsors lectures by eminent historians, and administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state through its partnership with Preserve America.