About David Blight
David W. Blight joined the department in January 2003 as professor of history. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library.
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01 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War era have a hold on American Historical Imagination?
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02 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
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03 - A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology
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04 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition movement
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05 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
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06 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
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08 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
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10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
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07 - "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55
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09 - John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
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11 - Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
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12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
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15 - Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy
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13 - Terrible Swift Sword: the Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
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14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
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20 - Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
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16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
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21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest Over the Meaning of Reconstruction
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19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
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22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President
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25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"
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26 - Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory
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17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
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27 - Legacies of the Civil War
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18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad
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24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
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23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
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Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?
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The Civil War
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David Blight Discusses Death and the Civil War
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Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality.
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Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850.
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A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition movement
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John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
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A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology.
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Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
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Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
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