HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

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Professor David Blight. Open Yale Courses. The causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Recent Episodes

  • Lecture 27 - Legacies of the Civil War

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  • Lecture 26 - Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

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  • Lecture 25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"

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  • Lecture 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"

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  • Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor

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  • Lecture 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President

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  • Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction

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  • Lecture 20 - Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic

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  • Lecture 19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings

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  • Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad

    7 years ago