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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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