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John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

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52:24·2008·introductory level

This lecture examines the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Dred Scott decision's impact on African Americans, and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, analyzing his legacy as a revolutionary figure through art and literature.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsHistory of Science & LiteratureJohn BrownLincoln-Douglas Debates

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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The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

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