2010-11: The Secession Crisis of 1860-61 Revisited
Robert Cook, Professor of American History, University of Sussex: "The Republican Party and the Secession Crisis of 1860-61" (May 17, 2011)
Elizabeth R. Varon, Professor of History, University of Virginia: "Robert E. Lee's Secession Crisis: A New Look at His Decision to Join the Confederacy" (March 7, 2011)
William L. Barney, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "Secession and the Vindication of Slavery" (October 18, 2010)
2009-10: Between Race and Nation: Black Politics in the Age of Jim Crow
Steven Hahn, Nichols Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania: "Politics by Many Means: Black Struggles for Power in the Jim Crow South" (February 15, 2010)
Jarod Roll, Lecturer in American History, University of Sussex: "The Power of Prophecy: Religion and Black Politics in the Jim Crow American South" (May 10, 2010)
Patricia Sullivan, Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina: 'The Crystalizing Force of Negro Citizenship:' The NAACP in the American South, 1915-1951 (October 12, 2009)
2008-09: Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
Richard Follett, Reader in American History, University of Sussex: "Legacies of Enslavement: Plantation Identities and the Question of Freedom" (May 6, 2009)
Walter Johnson, Professor of History and African American Studies, Harvard University: "Herbert Gutman, Agency, and the Question of Freedom" (February 2, 2009)
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University: "Abraham Lincoln, Colonization, and the Politics of Slavery" (March 5, 2008)