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
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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
8 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
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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
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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"
This lecture opens with a discussion of the myriad moments at which historians have declared an "end" to Reconstruction,... Read more
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
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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
8 Oct 2009
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