The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (HIST 119) Professor Blight finishes his lecture series with a discussion of the legacies of the Civil War. Since the nineteenth century, Blight suggests, there have been three predominant strains of Civil War memory, which Blight defines as reconciliationist, white supremacist, and emancipationist. The war has retained a political currency throughout the years, and the ability to control the memory of the Civil War has been, and continues to be, hotly contested. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Legacies of the Civil War 08:29 - Chapter 2. Catton's "Lost Cause" Interpretation: The Dependence of Memory on Historical Period 19:21 - Chapter 3. Reconciliationist, White Supremacist and Emancipationist Memories 29:11 - Chapter 4. The Shifting Grasp and Struggle to Control Civil War Memories 44:57 - Chapter 5. Echoes of the Civil War, Hope for Racial Equality: A 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 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's
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 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 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