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Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850

David W. Blight · Yale University

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  1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination? Audio
  2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region Audio
  3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology Audio
  4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement Audio
  5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality Audio
  6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 Audio
  7. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55 Audio
  8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58 Audio
  9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? Audio
  10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis Audio
  11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? Audio
  12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies Audio
  13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 Audio
  14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 Audio
  15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy Audio
  16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War Audio
  17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War Audio
  18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad Audio
  19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings Audio
  20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic Audio
  21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction Audio
  22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President Audio
  23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor Audio
  24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption" Audio
  25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" Audio
  26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory Audio
  27. Legacies of the Civil War Audio