The Civil War:

America’s Second Revolution

1861–1865

HIST 1301 Exam 2 Review on YouTube

Exam Covers Chapters 1-10

HIST 1301 Mini-Lectures on YouTube

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The Nation Disintegrates

Just Before the Battle MotherMusic and Words by GEORGE F. ROOT

Just before the battle, mother,I am thinking most of you,While upon the field we're watching,With the enemy in view. Comrades brave are 'round me lying,Fill'd with thoughts of home and God;For well they know that on the morrow,Some will sleep beneath the sod.

Chorus:Farewell, mother, you may neverPress me to your heart again,But, oh, you'll not forget me mother,If I'm number'd with the slain.Hark! I hear the bugles sounding,'Tis the signal for the fight,Now, may God protect us, Mother,As he ever does the right.Hear the "Battle Cry of Freedom,"How it swells upon the air,Oh, yes, we'll rally 'round the standard,Or we'll perish nobly there.

The Timeline to War

The Forces Driving Secession

Lincoln in Border States

Southerners Consider Secession

The North Assesses the Price of Peace

The Civil War Begins

The War for the Union and

Against Slavery

Comparing Military Resources

African Americans Open the Door to Freedom

Book TV: Andrew Ward "The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves"

The “Peculiar Institution” Begins to Unravel

Union Officials Consider Emancipation

The Confederacy and the Abolition of Slavery

The Confederacy and the Abolition of Slavery

The Cold Realities of War

Soldiers’ Lives

Ailing in Body and Soul

Civil War Glory Trailer

Freedom and American Identity

Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner

“The Battle Cry of Freedom”

Podcast from GLI

War Transforms the North

David Blight on Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

The Northern Economic Boom

Women Expand the Wartime Workforce

Take your gun and go, John,Take your gun and go,For Ruth can drive the oxen,And I can use the hoe.

Dissent and Protest in the Union States

Dissent and Protest in the Union States (Cont.)

Building Consensus Through Military Victory

African Americans Battle Confederates and Prejudice

African Americans Battle Confederates and Prejudice

“Mississippi Sawyer”

Podcasts from GLI

War Transforms the South

Ed Ayers on the Civil War and the South

Urbanization and Industrialization

Dissent and Protest in the Confederate States

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief

C-SPAN Archive Lincoln and His Generals

36:22 -  41:00 

Ulysses S. Grant

Military Victory Assured

Ed Ayers on Grant and Lee

Robert E. Lee

The South Surrenders

James McPherson on Battle Cry of Freedom

C-SPAN ArchiveFirst 5 Minutes

Additional Resources:David Bight's Lectures

Civil War and Reconstruction CourseYale University

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

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