Catalogue · Faculty of History
HIST 110
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877
David Blight — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of memory and slavery — lectures on America’s central catastrophe with a moral force that has made this one of the most beloved recorded courses in any subject. If you take a single history course here, take this one.
Syllabus
- slavery and the sectional crisis
- the war
- emancipation
- Reconstruction and its overthrow
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