Lecture 15 of 25 · Can It Happen Here Again?
15: Never Call Retreat: Why the North Won the War
Can It Happen Here Again?
Lectures
David W. Blight
Can It Happen Here Again? · 25 lectures
Yale, Slavery, and Legacies · DeVane 2024
25 lectures
1: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the American Imagination
2: Does Memory Matter? Universities, Slavery and Their Pasts
3: Is the Republic on the Eve of Destruction or Renewal?
4: The 18th Century Founding of Yale and its Many Contexts
5: Yale, Slavery, and the American Revolutionary Era
6: Yale, the Early Republic and the 1831 Black College
7: Antebellum Yale and the Coming of the Civil War
8: The Civil War and its Legacies at Yale
9: Ideologies and Economies: Southern and Northern World Views
10: “Mexico Will Poison Us”: Conquest and Kansas-Nebraska
11: “No Rights”: Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, Union Crisis
12: John Brown’s War, the 1860 Election and the Secession Crisis
13: Slavery or States’ Rights? What Caused the Civil War?
14: Terrible Swift Sword: Confederate Ascendancy and Defeat15: Never Call Retreat: Why the North Won the War
16: Homefronts and Battlefronts: The Social Impact of Total War
17: Who Freed the Slaves: Lincoln, Leadership and Emancipation
18: Days of Jubilee: Emancipation and Union Victory
19: Wartime Reconstruction and the Ends of War
20: Andrew Johnson, the Radicals and the Second Revolution
21: Retreat from Reconstruction, Grant and Southern “Redemption”
22: The “End” of Reconstruction and Its Legacies
23: Authoritarianism or Democracy: What Is Happening Here?
24: Legacies of Reconstruction and the Origins of Jim Crow
25: “Will It Rise?” Endings and Beginnings for Country and Yale