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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale)

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  • 1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption" (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 27. Legacies of the Civil War (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 (Yale)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale) Yale University Professor David W. Blight Social Sciences
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  • 7. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55 (Yale)
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