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Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

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50:18·2008·introductory level

This lecture critically assesses multiple historical interpretations for the Civil War's outbreak, including the preservation of slavery, 'fear thesis,' and 'honor thesis,' tracing the evolution of historiographical arguments from James Ford Rhodes to Charles and Mary Beard.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsBehavioral & Evolutionary BiologyCauses of Civil WarSlavery

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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