Class15, Never Call Retreat: Military Turning Points and Why the North Won the War
Never Call Retreat: Military Turning Points and Why the North Won the War. 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 16, Homefronts and Battlefronts: The Social Impact of Total War
Class14, Terrible Swift Sword: Confederate Ascendency and Ultimate Defeat
Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman‘s March to the Sea - Part 1
Pershing Lecture Series: The AEF in Battle: September to November 1918 - Richard S. Faulkner
America's Bloodiest Day: Battle of Antietam 1862
An in-depth interview with the late Sir Alex Younger, the longest-serving MI6 chief | The Economist
Class 20, Andrew Johnson, the Radicals, and the Second American Revolution
Class 21, Retreat from Reconstruction, the Grant Era and Paths to “Southern Redemption”
Grand Strategy North and South: Why the Confederates never had a Chance
Michael Burlingame Interview: Abraham Lincoln's Battle to Save the Nation
How the USS New Jersey's 16-Inch Guns Work: Top to Bottom
Brian Cox- The Fermi Paradox Will Change How You See The Universe
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography | Conversations with Tyler
The Unity Of The Universe - David Deutsch
Class 22, The “End” of Reconstruction, 1877? 1883? 1965? 2024? and its Legacies to Our Own Time
Is the Civil War the Revolution We Like to Forget?
The Geopolitics of the American Civil War
David Blight - The Civil War in American Memory
A British Officer's Account of Gettysburg
