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"A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

Sterling Professor of History

47:54·2008·introductory level

Professor Blight analyzes the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, tracing their cumulative impact toward the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the subsequent formation of the Republican Party.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsAmerican Civil WarAntebellum PoliticsKansas-Nebraska Act

The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)

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David W. BlightPulitzer Prize Winner

Pulitzer Prize for History · Sterling Professor of History · Yale University

David W. Blight is a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian renowned for his definitive scholarship on the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58

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