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- 8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union,...
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight continues his march through the political events of the 1850s. Blight continues his description of the aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act...
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- 14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight lectures on the military history of the early part of the war. Beginning with events in the West, Blight describes the Union victories at F...
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- 16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) This lecture focuses on the process of emancipation after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The Proclamation, Professor Bligh...
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- 17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of t...
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight begins his lecture with a description of the sea change in Civil War scholarship heralded by the Social History revolution of the 1960s and...
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- 18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at H...
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss of will thesis, which sugg...
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- 19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Mean...
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. The architect of the strategy that wou...
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- 20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second Ameri...
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) This lecture begins with a central, if often overlooked, turning point in the Civil War--the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Although the concerted ...
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- 14. Trench Warfare
- France Since 1871 (HIST 276) The sacred union that united France's political parties during World War I contributed to a resilient morale on the home front. Germany's invasion of France, and the confl...
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