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5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality (Yale)

Course:The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale)
Discipline:Social Sciences
Institute:Yale University
Instructor(s): Professor David W. Blight
Level:College

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale)

1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical (Yale)
10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis (Yale)
11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War? (Yale)
12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies (Yale)
13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862 (Yale)
14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863 (Yale)
15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy (Yale)
16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War (Yale)
17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War (Yale)
8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58 (Yale)
18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad (Yale)
9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? (Yale)
19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings (Yale)
2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region (Yale)
20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic (Yale)
21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction (Yale)
22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President (Yale)
23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor (Yale)
24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption" (Yale)
25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" (Yale)

5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality (Yale)

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Yale)

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