Dr. David Blight's Presentations

2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region

3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology

4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement

5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

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

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

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

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

10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

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

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

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

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

15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy

16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War

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

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

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

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

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

22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President

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

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

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

26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

27. Legacies of the Civil War

28. From Days of Mourning to Days of Jubilee?