Podcasts by HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
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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Lecture 27 - Legacies of the Civil War from 2017-08-25T07:03
Professor Blight finishes his lecture series with a discussion of the legaci...
Lecture 26 - Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory from 2017-08-25T07:02
Having dealt with the role of violence and the Supreme Court in bringing abo...
Lecture 25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" from 2017-08-25T06:55
This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in bri...
Lecture 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption" from 2017-08-25T06:41
This lecture opens with a discussion of the myriad moments at which historia...
Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor from 2017-08-25T06:38
Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the...
Lecture 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President from 2017-08-25T06:37
Professor Blight continues his discussion of the political history of Recons...
Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction from 2017-08-25T06:36
In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction....
Lecture 20 - Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic from 2017-08-25T06:35
This lecture begins with a central, if often overlooked, turning point in th...
Lecture 19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings from 2017-08-25T06:34
Professor Blight uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to in...
Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad from 2017-08-25T06:32
This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Pr...
Lecture 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War from 2017-08-22T09:44
Professor Blight begins his lecture with a description of the sea change in ...
Lecture 16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War from 2017-08-22T09:42
This lecture focuses on the process of emancipation after the passage of the...
Lecture 15 - Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy from 2017-08-22T09:40
Professor Blight follows Robert E. Lee's army north into Maryland during the...
Lecture 14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 from 2017-08-22T09:39
Professor Blight lectures on the military history of the early part of the w...
Lecture 13 - Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 from 2017-08-19T05:25
Professor Blight discusses the expectations, advantages, and disadvantages w...
Lecture 12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies from 2017-08-19T05:22
After finishing with his survey of the manner in which historians have expla...
Lecture 11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? from 2017-08-19T05:03
Professor Blight begins this lecture with an attempt to answer the question ...
Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis from 2017-08-19T05:02
This lecture picks off where the previous one left off, with a discussion of...
Lecture 9 - John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? from 2017-08-19T05:00
Professor Blight narrates the momentous events of 1857, 1858, and 1859. The ...
Lecture 8 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58 from 2017-08-19T04:58
Professor Blight continues his march through the political events of the 185...
Lecture 7 - "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55 from 2017-08-19T04:55
Professor Blight narrates some of the important political crises of the 1850...
Lecture 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 from 2017-08-18T19:36
In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controver...
Lecture 5 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality from 2017-08-18T19:34
Professor Blight offers an introduction to the course. He summarizes some of...
Lecture 4 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement from 2017-08-18T08:53
Having finished with slavery and the pro-slavery argument, Professor Blight ...
Lecture 3 - A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology from 2017-08-18T08:23
Professor Blight lectures on southern slavery. He makes a case for viewing t...
Lecture 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region from 2017-08-17T07:32
Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern d...
Lecture 1 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination? from 2017-08-17T07:26
Professor Blight offers an introduction to the course. He summarizes some of...