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"War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

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50:32·2008·introductory level

This session critically evaluates various explanations for Confederate defeat and Union victory, including the 'loss of will thesis,' industrial capacity, political and military leadership, and emancipation, emphasizing the decisive battlefield outcomes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsConfederate DefeatUnion VictoryGettysburg

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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Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War

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To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings

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