The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight
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1 modules • 26 lessons • 22.5 hours of video
The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight
26 lessons
• 21.5 hours
The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight
26 lessons
• 21.5 hours
- 1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical 43:07
- 2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region 52:07
- 3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology 51:00
- 4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement 51:23
- 5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality 50:13
- 6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 53:16
- 7. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55 47:54
- 8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58 52:27
- 9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? 52:24
- 10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis 51:01
- 11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? 50:18
- 12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies 46:37
- 13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 52:53
- 14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 50:28
- 15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy 51:49
- 16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War 48:40
- 17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War 50:47
- 18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad 50:32
- 19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings 51:12
- 20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic 48:35
- 21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction 50:44
- 22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President 52:08
- 23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor 51:21
- 24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption" 50:03
- 25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" 52:20
- 26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory 51:42
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