15 episodes
Q & Abe President Lincoln's Cottage
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- Society & Culture
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5.0, 16 Ratings
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Every day at President Lincoln’s Cottage we engage with visitors in conversation on difficult topics, from slavery to grief to immigration. Visitors, young and old alike, come here from next door and from around the globe.
And occasionally, we get asked a question on a tour that stops us in our tracks – one we wish we could spend a half hour answering. Some of these questions, on their face, were innocent or simple, but on a second look they contain a level of complexity that leaves us wanting to know more. Each episode, we’ll investigate a single real question a visitor asked us here.
At President Lincoln’s Cottage, we’re storytellers, historians, and truth-seekers – so we called on people whose expertise could speak to all the facets of these questions. On each episode, we'll go down the rabbit hole and spend that half hour answering these questions.
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Bonus: Preservation Insights
This bonus episode accompanies episode 2.4, "What's the Cottage worth?"
While we’re digging around researching the questions in the show, we sometimes run across things that don’t fit within the main episode, but are too intriguing not to share. Having rediscovered the full specifications for building the Cottage, we asked our Senior Preservationist Jeff Larry to read them for us, and to shed some light on them using his expertise.
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What's the Cottage worth?
In this episode, we're investigating a question we often get from visitors: "What's the Cottage worth?" Come investigate with us as we pore through old banking records and talk to an insurance adjuster, an antiquities appraiser, and an architect who studies sacred spaces.
Guests:
Kevin Sullivan
Allan Stypeck
Julio Bermudez
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Bonus: Didier and the Second Amendment
This bonus episode accompanies episode 2.3, What's the difference between freedom and liberty?
Our journey working to answer the questions for the show sometimes leads to dialogue, conversations, and side pockets that don't fit directly within the main episode, but are too fascinating not to share. Partway through our conversation with Didier Saillard, he had a question that resulted in a fascinating exchange about constitutions on both sides of the Atlantic.
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What's the difference between liberty and freedom?
For this episode, we’re investigating the question: “What’s the difference between liberty and freedom?” Dig in with us as we talk to a historian of the English language, a native French speaker, and a legal expert in the anti-trafficking field.
Guests:
Michael Adams
Didier Saillard
Louis cdeBaca
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Bonus: Encounters with Race and Racism
This bonus episode accompanies episode 2.2, If people saw that slavery was getting started, why didn't they stop it?
In our conversations surrounding the questions in the show, we sometimes encounter stories that don’t fit within the main episode, but are compelling enough that we don’t want to keep them to ourselves. In talking through this question, several of our guests shared with us stories about their personal experiences encountering race and the other legacies of slavery. You'll hear from Robin and Terry from Fort Monroe, and Catherine and Andre from Point Made Learning.
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If people saw that slavery was getting started, why didn't they stop it?
In this episode, we’ll be digging into a question asked by a third grade student at the Cottage - "If people saw that slavery was getting started, why didn't they stop it?" Come down the rabbit hole with us as we talk to a historian of colonial Virginia, staff at the historic site of the 1619 landing, a former colleague, and two anti-racist facilitators.
Guests:
Kathleen Brown
Robin Reed
Terry Brown
Curtis Harris
Catherine Wigginton-Greene
Andre Robert Lee
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Customer Reviews
Well done and informative
I appreciate the thought and care the team at Lincoln’s Cottage takes to answer visitor questions - they made a podcast to do so! This podcast shows the depth of research and knowledge that goes into answering these (seemingly simple) questions. Excellent public history in action!
Pleasant Informative Podcast
A pleasant and highly informative podcast for those interested in Abraham Lincoln and the cottage where he and his family often stayed in D.C. It’s nice to learn more about Lincoln through others.
Favorite History Podcast
This podcasts always brings the listener through stellar scholarship to unexpected places. Five stars and three cheers!
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