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Lecture 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
Lecture 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
Professor Blight begins his lecture with a description of the sea change in Civil War scholarship heralded by the Social... Read more
22 Aug 2017
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Lecture 14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
Lecture 14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
Professor Blight lectures on the military history of the early part of the war. Beginning with events in the West, Bligh... Read more
22 Aug 2017
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Lecture 3 - A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology
Lecture 3 - 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
18 Aug 2017
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Lecture 4 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement
Lecture 4 - 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
18 Aug 2017
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Lecture 5 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
Lecture 5 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
Professor Blight offers an introduction to the course. He summarizes some of the course readings, and discusses the orga... Read more
19 Aug 2017
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Lecture 8 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
Lecture 8 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
Professor Blight continues his march through the political events of the 1850s. He continues his description of the afte... Read more
19 Aug 2017
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Lecture 12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
Lecture 12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
After finishing with his survey of the manner in which historians have explained the coming of the Civil War, Professor ... Read more
19 Aug 2017
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Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
This lecture picks off where the previous one left off, with a discussion of the legacies of John Brown. The most import... Read more
19 Aug 2017
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Lecture 11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
Lecture 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
19 Aug 2017
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Lecture 13 - Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
Lecture 13 - Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
Professor Blight discusses the expectations, advantages, and disadvantages with which North and South entered the Civil ... Read more
19 Aug 2017
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