finally, edna green medford, our executive board member of the lincoln forum, speaker here. chairman of the department and professor of history at howard university, coauthor with me and harold holtzer on "abraham lincoln and the emancipation proclamation, three views." and her own volume, "lincoln and emancipation," part of the presser lincoln series. so before i ask each of them to make a few introductory remarks, i have asked each and they have agreed to pe fspeak for three t five minutes and then i will give them some questions and then we will open the floor to you. we hope there are many questions from you. but for many americans, reconstruction is still remembered, if it is remembered at all, as a period of racial anarchy, political failure and the humiliation of the defeated south. indeed, it is probably fair to say that americans' impressions of the era have been shaped, if only half consciously, by films such as "birth of a nation" and "gone with the wind" where their charact caricatures of scalliwags and carpet baggers, more than by what happened in the south in 1

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