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

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

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51:12·2008·introductory level

This lecture uses Melville's "On the Slain Collegians" to frame the brutal campaigns of 1864, analyzing Ulysses S. Grant's strategy in Virginia and William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea, and exploring their cumulative impact on Union victory and Confederate morale.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsUlysses S. GrantSherman's MarchPetersburg Campaign

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

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Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic

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