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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

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  1. Lecture 27 - Legacies of the Civil War

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_27_042908.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight finishes his lecture series with a discussion of the legacies of the Civil War. Since the nineteent

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_26_042408.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Having dealt with the role of violence and the Supreme Court in bringing about the end of Reconstruction in his last

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_25_042208.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction. Pr

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_24_041708.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> This lecture opens with a discussion of the myriad moments at which historians have declared an "end" to Reconstruct

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_23_041508.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congression

  6. Lecture 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_22_041008.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight continues his discussion of the political history of Reconstruction. The central figure in the earl

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_21_040808.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_20_040308.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> This lecture begins with a central, if often overlooked, turning point in the Civil War--the re-election of Abraham

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_19_040108.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864

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

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_18_032708.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidatio

  11. Lecture 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_17_032508.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight begins his lecture with a description of the sea change in Civil War scholarship heralded by the So

  12. Lecture 16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_16_030608.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> This lecture focuses on the process of emancipation after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,

  13. Lecture 15 - Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_15_030408.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight follows Robert E. Lee's army north into Maryland during the summer of 1862, an invasion that culmin

  14. Lecture 14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_14_022808.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight lectures on the military history of the early part of the war. Beginning with events in the West, B

  15. Lecture 13 - Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_13_022608.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight discusses the expectations, advantages, and disadvantages with which North and South entered the Ci

  16. Lecture 12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_12_022108.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> After finishing with his survey of the manner in which historians have explained the coming of the Civil War, Profes

  17. Lecture 11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_11_021908.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight begins this lecture with an attempt to answer the question "why did the South secede in 1861?" Blig

  18. Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_10_021408.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> This lecture picks off where the previous one left off, with a discussion of the legacies of John Brown. The most im

  19. Lecture 9 - John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_09_021208.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight narrates the momentous events of 1857, 1858, and 1859. The lecture opens with an analysis of the fa

  20. Lecture 8 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_08_020708.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight continues his march through the political events of the 1850s. He continues his description of the

  21. Lecture 7 - "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_07_020508.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight narrates some of the important political crises of the 1850s. The lecture begins with an account of

  22. Lecture 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_06_013108/hist119_06_013108.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controversies, and compromises that led up to the

  23. Lecture 5 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_05_012908/hist119_05_012908.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight offers an introduction to the course. He summarizes some of the course readings, and discusses the

  24. Lecture 4 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_04_012408/hist119_04_012408.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Having finished with slavery and the pro-slavery argument, Professor Blight heads North today. The majority of the l

  25. Lecture 3 - A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_03_012208/hist119_03_012208.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight lectures on southern slavery. He makes a case for viewing the U.S. South as one of the five true "s

  26. Lecture 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_02_011708/hist119_02_011708.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern distinctiveness. The lecture offers a sur

  27. Lecture 1 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?

    <audio controls><source src="https://archive.org/download/hist119_01_011508/hist119_01_011508.mp3" /></audio> <br /> <br /> Professor Blight offers an introduction to the course. He summarizes some of the course readings, and discusses the

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