The politics of the United States pre-Civil War was far more complicated than most people think, says Pulitzer Prize winning historian Steven Hahn in a lecture held February 6, 2018.

(Learn about Pre-Civil War Politics)

Steven Hahn, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History, is Professor of History at New York University. He is author of A Nation Without Borders:The United States and its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910; The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom; and A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.

The talk was part of the Spring 2018 Senior Citizen Lecture Series, "From New Nation to World Power: Culture, Politics, and Society in the United States, 1789-1896."

The series was organized by History Professor Sara Rzeszutek.