Class 20, Andrew Johnson, the Radicals, and the Second American Revolution
Andrew Johnson, the Radicals, and the Second American Revolution. In this DeVane Lecture Series course, Professor David Blight examines the impact of slavery and racism on American institutions, past, present, and future. This course works from an assumption that racial slavery was a central theme of the history of the Americas, and its many endings and legacies live with us still. The course will pose the question “can it happen here?” In the 1930s, the “it” was fascism. The “it” in this case is intended to mean not only slavery and its myriad forms of enduring inequalities, but also the very existence of a pluralistic, democratic, multi-ethnic government and society rooted in the rule of law and living under a common constitution. There have been many pivot or hinge points in American history when the nature and existence of the American experiment, as well as human freedom and rights were on the line. The course will specifically examine slavery and Yale, the Civil War, and the many legacies of that period – political, constitutional, racial, economic, and commemorative – as they have shaped American life and polity ever since. To view all the classes as they are posted, please visit this playlist: Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, and Legacies: 2024 DeVane Lecture Series • Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, a...
Class 21, Retreat from Reconstruction, the Grant Era and Paths to “Southern Redemption”
Class 1, Why Does the Civil War and Reconstruction Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?
Class 24, Legacies of Reconstruction and the Origins of Jim Crow Society
John J. Mearsheimer, “The Roots of Liberal Hegemony”
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (HD)
Class12, John Brown’s Holy War, 1860 Election, and the Secession Crisis
Wolff BREAK HIS SILENCE on Melania LAWSUIT!!!
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
American Revolution - Causes, Problems, Beginning - Early Modern History
Class 22, The “End” of Reconstruction, 1877? 1883? 1965? 2024? and its Legacies to Our Own Time
Eric Foner: Reconstruction and the Constitution
Class15, Never Call Retreat: Military Turning Points and Why the North Won the War
Andrew Johnson Presidential Home – Visiting the House and Gravesite – Greeneville, Tennessee
Andrew Johnson: First Impeached (1865 - 1869)
David Blight - The Civil War in American Memory
Class 11, “No Rights”: Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union
NYSL: Annette Gordon-Reed on "Andrew Johnson"
Class 2, Does Memory Matter? Why Are Universities Studying Slavery and Their Pasts?
Class 19, Wartime Reconstruction and the Ends of War
