The Settlement of the West and

The Conflict Over Slave Labor

1848–1860

HIST 1301 Mini-Lectures on YouTube

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The Transformation of the West

Work and Race

Pioneer Women’s Work and Rights

Uneasy Compromises over Slavery

Introducing This Week's Guest Lecturer:Prof. David Blight

Civil War and Reconstruction CourseYale University

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

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

Lois Horton on the Fugitive Slave Act

Birth of the Republican Party

Back to This Week's Guest Lecturer:Prof. David Blight

Civil War and Reconstruction CourseYale University

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

The Labor Question in a

Time of Rising Tension: Toward a Sectional Showdown

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

Now ... This Week's Guest Lecturer:Prof. David Blight

Civil War and Reconstruction CourseYale University

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