Class 21, Retreat from Reconstruction, the Grant Era and Paths to “Southern Redemption”
Retreat from Reconstruction, the Grant Era and Paths to “Southern Redemption.” 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 22, The “End” of Reconstruction, 1877? 1883? 1965? 2024? and its Legacies to Our Own Time
Class 1, Why Does the Civil War and Reconstruction Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?
CA election: Becerra, Hilton neck and neck in early results
The Vicksburg Campaign: Grant's Masterpiece
Class 24, Legacies of Reconstruction and the Origins of Jim Crow Society
David McCullough: George Washington, Commander in Chief
Class 20, Andrew Johnson, the Radicals, and the Second American Revolution
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
Class 11, “No Rights”: Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union
Class12, John Brown’s Holy War, 1860 Election, and the Secession Crisis
George Fox and the Birth of Quakerism
Eric Foner: Reconstruction and the Constitution
What RAF Pilots Said When They First Flew The American P-51 Mustang
From the C-SPAN Archive: Civil War Historian Shelby Foote (FULL INTERVIEW)
Why Did Britain Abolish Slavery in 1833? (Pt 1)
Oil, Empire & the Modern Middle East – Dr. Roy | Museum of the Future: Lessons from the Past
The election of George Washington was weirder than you think
Reconstruction: Crash Course Black American History #19
Harvard Professor Explains The Rules of Writing — Steven Pinker
