Lecture 27 - Legacies of the Civil War

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

Lecture 25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"

Lecture 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"

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

Lecture 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President

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

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

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

Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad

Lecture 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War

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

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

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

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

Lecture 12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies

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

Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

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

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