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    Lec 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's

    "Lec 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's " The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern distinctiveness. The lecture offers a survey of that manner in which commentators--American, foreign, northern, and southern--have sought to make sense of the nature of southern society and southern history. The lecture analyzes the society and culture of the Old South, with special emphasis on the aspects of southern life that made the region distinct from the antebellum North. The most lasting and influential sources of Old South distinctiveness, Blight suggests, were that society's anti-modernism, its emphasis on honor, and the booming slave economy that developed in the South from the 1820s to the 1860s. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: The Southern Memory of the Civil War 14:22 - Chapter 2. Similarities and Differences between the Antebellum North and South 24:44 - Chapter 3. Reputation and Honor -- Characteristics of Old South Society 31:27 - Chapter 4. The "Burden" of Southern History 38:15 - Chapter 5. The South's Cotton Economy 49:57 - Chapter 6. Conclusion Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

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

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

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

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

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

    Lec 7 - A Hell of a Storm The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party

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

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

    Lec 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

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

    Lec 12 - And the War Came

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

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

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

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

    Lec 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts:

    Lec 18 - - War So Terrible: Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad The Civil War and Reconstructi

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

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

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

    Lec 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President

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

    Lec 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to

    Lec 25 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Era

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

    Lec 27 - Legacies of the Civil War