HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

27 Episodes

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

   Published: 8/19/2017
2. Lecture 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850

   Published: 8/19/2017
3. Lecture 5 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

   Published: 8/19/2017
4. Lecture 4 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement

   Published: 8/18/2017
5. Lecture 3 - A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology

   Published: 8/18/2017
6. Lecture 2 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region

   Published: 8/17/2017
7. Lecture 1 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?

   Published: 8/17/2017