1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical American History 43 min Click to view videos

Video Lecture Description Sub-Category Time Click to view video Back to History Video Lecture Course Page 1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical American History 43 min Click to view videos 2. Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum Americas “Peculiar” Region American History 52 min Click to view videos 3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology American History 51 min Click to view videos 4.Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement American History 51 min Click to view videos 5. Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality American History 50 min Click to view videos 6. Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 American History 53 min Click to view videos 7. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 185 American History 48 min Click to view videos 8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58 American History 52 min Click to view videos 9. John Browns Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? American History 52 min Click to view videos 10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis American History 51 min Click to view videos 11. Slavery and State Rights, What Caused the Civil War? American History 50 min Click to view videos 12. “And the War Came,” 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies American History 47 min Click to view videos 13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 American History 53 min Click to view videos 14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 American History 50 min Click to view videos 15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy American History 52 min Click to view videos 16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War American History 49 min Click to view videos 17. “Hard War” and the Social Impact of the Civil War American History 51 min Click to view videos 18. Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad American History 51 min Click to view videos 19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings American History 51 min Click to view videos 20. Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic American History 49 min Click to view videos 21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals American History 51 min Click to view videos 22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President American History 52 min Click to view videos 23. The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor American History 51 min Click to view videos 24. The Grant Era and Paths to “Southern Redemption” American History 50 min Click to view videos 25. Disputed Election of 1876, and the “Compromise of 1877” American History 52 min Click to view videos 26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory American History 52 min Click to view videos 27. Legacies of the Civil War American History 49 min Click to view videos