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Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

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52:53·2008·introductory level

This lecture compares the initial expectations, advantages, and disadvantages of the North and South entering the Civil War, culminating in an analysis of the Battle of Bull Run as the war's first major engagement.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsControl & Dynamical SystemsConfederate AscendencyUnion Advantages

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.

1 course · 22 lecturesCanon
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