Studio 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.
Class 16 – Gilded Age and the Aftermath of Reconstruction, South, North, and West
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What becomes of a nation filled with corruption that’s covered with gold. Professor David Blight returns to Mark Twain as he details the Gilded Age and what it brings.
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.
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 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.
Sensitive issues in the New Testament
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Emily Judd interviews Professor of New Testament Yii-Jan Lin about resistance, feminism, and slavery in the New Testament, and how one passage can be interpreted differently to support opposites sides of an argument.