27 - Legacies of the Civil War
27 - Legacies of the Civil War
Professor Blight finishes his lecture series with a discussion of the legacies of the Civil War. Since the nineteenth ce... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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26 - Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory
26 - Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory
Having dealt with the role of violence and the Supreme Court in bringing about the end of Reconstruction in his last lec... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"
25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"
This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction. Profes... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
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14 Oct 2009
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23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congressional R... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President
22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President
Professor Blight continues his discussion of the political history of Reconstruction. The central figure in the early ph... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest Over the Meaning of Reconstruction
21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest Over the Meaning of Reconstruction
In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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20 - Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
20 - Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
This lecture begins with a central, if often overlooked, turning point in the Civil War--the re-election of Abraham Linc... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
Professor Blight uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. Th... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad
18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad
This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of... Read more
14 Oct 2009
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