registration<\/a>\u00a0is recommended.<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this hourlong talk C-SPAN founder, Brian Lamb, and Medford will explore thought-provoking insights on African American history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and US Presidents including Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. Medford will also share from her upcoming book,\u00a0<\/span>TRAIL: An African American Family\u2019s Generational Pursuit of Justice and Equality in the Nineteenth Century<\/span><\/i>\u00a0which uncovers the struggles and triumphs of William Trail as he escaped enslavement in the South and navigated the judicial system to find freedom in Indiana.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMedford, widely regarded as a leading expert on African American history, President Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, and Reconstruction, has regularly appeared on C-SPAN and been featured in several documentaries including the recent History Channel series\u00a0<\/span>Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/i>. During her 35 years as a professor of history at Howard University, Medford served as the Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, Interim Dean of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Department of History, and the Department of History\u2019s Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs. She was also awarded the Distinguished Faculty Medal in 2021.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIn addition to her work at Howard University, Medford has written and edited numerous books, articles, and book chapters. Medford is the Vice President of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and a member of the Executive Committee of the Lincoln Forum. She previously served as the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Director of History for New York’s African American Burial Ground. In recognition of her scholarship on President Lincoln, Medford was awarded the Order of Lincoln by the state of Illinois.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis\u00a0<\/span>CCSE Conversation with Brian Lamb\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is sponsored by the Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement, Brian Lamb School of Communication, and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Purdue.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFor more information\u00a0contact Andrea Langrish, Managing Director, Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement at centerforcspan@purdue.edu.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAbout Purdue University\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nPurdue University is a top public research institution developing practical solutions to today\u2019s toughest challenges. Ranked in each of the last five years as one of the 10 Most Innovative universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, Purdue delivers world-changing research and out-of-this-world discovery. Committed to hands-on and online, real-world learning, Purdue offers a transformative education to all. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue has frozen tuition and most fees at 2012-13 levels, enabling more students than ever to graduate debt-free. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap at https:\/\/stories.purdue.edu<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
C-SPAN Founder and\u00a0Edna Greene Medford, Ph.D., Howard University,\u00a0discuss\u00a0African American history,\u00a0US Presidents, the Civil War and Reconstruction. \u00a0WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Edna Greene Medford, Ph.D., Vice President of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, and professor emeritus at Howard University will be the featured guest for the\u00a0CCSE Conversation with Brian Lamb.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0CCSE Conversation with Brian Lamb, hosted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"The Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement (CCSE) in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at\r\nPurdue University is pleased to announce the formation of an Editorial Board for the Year in C-SPAN\r\nArchives Research series published annually by the Purdue University Press.\r\nThe editorial board will assist Robert X Browning, Ph.D. in selecting and editing papers for the annual\r\nvolume. Dr. Browning, a Professor of Political Science and Communication at Purdue University, is the\r\nFaculty Director of the CCSE and the Executive Director of the C-SPAN Archives.\r\nThe inaugural board is comprised of the following scholars:\r\nMatthew Bergbower, Ph.D. \u2013 Department Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science at\r\nIndiana State University.\r\nResearch: state politics, campaigns, voting behavior and voting in statewide campaigns\r\nPorismita Borah, Ph.D. \u2013 Associate Professor, Edward R. 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At this conference, scholars gather to present papers and share innovations in\r\nresearch that utilize the C-SPAN Video Library on current or historical topics and to explore ideas in a\r\nwide variety of scholarly fields including communication, politics, sociology, and history.\r\nThe Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement was founded in 2017 as a national research center\r\nfocused on discovery, learning, and engagement using the C-SPAN Archives and is housed in the Brian\r\nLamb School of Communication, in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University.\r\nTo learn more about the editorial board and The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, contact Robert\r\nBrowning at rxb@purdue.edu.\r\nFor more information about the Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement, contact Managing\r\nDirector Andrea Langrish, at langrish@purdue.edu.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}