Class 11 – The Road to Disunion: Politics, Dred Scott, and the Crisis of the 1850s
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Professor David Blight continues with the lead up to the Civil War.
Episode 6: Reconstruction
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Professor Beverly Gage asks David Blight to expand on his recent lectures on the Reconstruction and all the challenges it faced.
Jennifer Banks in Conversation with Anthony T. Kronman
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In this special episode of the Yale University Press podcast, Jennifer Banks, Senior Executive Editor in Religion and the Humanities, talks with Anthony T. Kronman about his latest book, True Conservatism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Arrogant Age.
Ji Li, At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China
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In this episode, Ji Li discusses her book, At the Frontier of God’s Empire with Chloë Starr. The book tells the story of French missionary Alfred Caubrière who before his murder in 1948 left behind some 800 letters to his family, as well as 13 volumes of transcripts of everyday conversations in the local dialect among villagers in Santaizi, Manchuria. The episode discusses the life of Caubrière and especially his experience of the weeks-long siege of Santaizi church by the Boxer Rebels in 1900, as well as his depictions of the lives and beliefs of local Catholics.
Class 10 – The Mexican War and its Aftermath: Compromise or Armistice
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The Mexican – American War from 1846-1848 had an immense impact on the territory of America and the issue of slavery. Professor David Blight begins his series of classes with an in depth review.
Studio Conversation: What is a Republic? Hamilton, Jackson, and more
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Professors David Blight, Beverly Gage, and Joanne Freeman discuss Professor Freeman’s final lectures on Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, and how America’s experiment with democracy was received by outsiders.
Class 9 – Whose America? Protest and Reform
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Searching and struggles, opportunities and losses. Professor Joanne Freeman concludes her series of lectures for the course.
Class 8 – Jacksonian “Democracy”
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Jeffersonian Republicans to the rise of Jackson populism. Professor Joanne Freeman discusses the impact of the election of 1800 and more.
The History of Miracles and Near-Death Experiences with Carlos Eire
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Yale University Professor of History and Religious Studies Carlos Eire discusses evolving Protestant and Catholic views on miracles, the history of near-death experiences, and ‘hot button issues’ including the celibacy rule for Catholic priests.
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Episode 5: The Cause of the Civil War
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In this episode, Professor David Blight answers the simple question: What caused the Civil War?