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David W. Blight Professor of American History Yale

David W. Blight

Professor of American History
Yale

Courses

  1. The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 Course

    The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight

Lectures

  1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination? Lecture
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    Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region Lecture
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    Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  3. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology, and the Abolition Movement Lecture
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    A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology, and the Abolition Movement

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  4. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality Lecture
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    Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  5. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 Lecture
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    Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  6. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party Lecture
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    "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  7. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union Lecture
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    Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  8. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? Lecture
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    John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  9. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis Lecture
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    The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  10. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? Lecture
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    Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  11. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies Lecture
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    "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  12. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency Lecture
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    Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  13. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 Lecture
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    Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  14. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy Lecture
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    Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  15. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War Lecture
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    Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  16. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War Lecture
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    Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  17. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost Lecture
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    "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  18. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings Lecture
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    To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  19. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic Lecture
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    Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  20. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction Lecture
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    Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  21. Constitutional Crisis and the Impeachment of a President Lecture
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    Constitutional Crisis and the Impeachment of a President

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  22. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor Lecture
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    Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  23. Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption" Lecture
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    Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  24. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" Lecture
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    The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  25. Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory Lecture
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    Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  26. Legacies of the Civil War Lecture
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    Legacies of the Civil War

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight
  27. A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology Lecture
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    A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology

    Yale / History
    David W. Blight

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    Yale / History
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