At the time of the American Civil War, four million African Americans were enslaved in the United States. As President Abraham Lincoln and federal lawmakers legislated their way through emancipation and abolition, a question rose to the foreground: what would freedom mean for Black Americans? Black people asserted that it meant citizenship.

When Ford’s Theatre offers you the opportunity to leave your mark on the digital world, you gather your classmates and create a podcast! This behind-the-scenes…