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03 - A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology
03 - A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology
Professor Blight lectures on southern slavery. He makes a case for viewing the U.S. South as one of the five true "slave... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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04 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition movement
04 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition movement
Having finished with slavery and the pro-slavery argument, Professor Blight heads North today. The majority of the lectu... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
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13 - Terrible Swift Sword: the Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
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06 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
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In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controversies, and compromises that led up to the Civ... Read more
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09 - John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
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11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
Professor Blight begins this lecture with an attempt to answer the question "why did the South secede in 1861?" Blight o... Read more
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12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
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After finishing with his survey of the manner in which historians have explained the coming of the Civil War, Professor ... Read more
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