Studio Conversation: 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?
Class 13 – Union Victory, Confederate Defeat, and Emancipation
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It comes to war. Professor David Blight takes the class through the Civil War, emancipation, and shape of things to come.
Episode 7: Immigration and Its Discontents
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Professors Beverly Gage and David Blight discuss Professor Gage’s first lecture on the United States’ identity crisis in the early 20th century.
Class 12 – Two Constitutions, Secession and War, 1860-1862
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John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and the Lincoln – Douglas debates are two key parts of Professor David Blight’s examination of the road to Civil War.
Studio Conversation: Frederick Douglass, The Slave Power, and The Fourth of July
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Professors Beverly Gage and Joanne Freeman ask Professor David Blight about his recent lectures about early Republicans, The Slave Power conspiracy, and the slave narratives that affected them most.
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.