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HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877

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HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877

HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877
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About the Course

This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history. Those meanings may be defined in many ways: national, sectional, racial, constitutional, individual, social, intellectual, or moral. Four broad themes are closely examined: the crisis of union and disunion in an expanding republic; slavery, race, and emancipation as national problem, personal experience, and social process; the experience of modern, total war for individuals and society; and the political and social challenges of Reconstruction.

Sessions

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


About Professor David W. Blight

David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (for which he received the Bancroft, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass prizes), and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War. He is also the co-author of the bestselling American history textbook, A People and a Nation.
HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877

HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877

HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877

HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877


HIST 119 - THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, 1845-1877