The American Civil War
By: Gary W. Gallagher
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Format: [kit] /
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781565855878; 9781565853935; 9781565856196
Subjects: History
Description: Examines the causes of the American Civil War, why the North won, how military campaigns unfolded, and how the war affected various elements of American society.
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Gary W. Gallagher, lecturer.

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Table of contents: title: part 1. lecture 1. Prelude to war; title: lecture 2. The election of 1860; title: lecture 3. The lower South secedes; title: lecture 4. The crisis at Fort Sumter; title: lecture 5. The opposing sides, I; title: lecture 6. The opposing sides, II; title: lecture 7. The common soldier; title: lecture 8. First Manassas or Bull Run; title: lecture 9. Contending for the border states; title: lecture 10. Early Union triumphs in the west; title: lecture 11. Shiloh and Corinth; title: lecture 12. The Peninsula Campaign.; title: part 2. lecture 13. The Seven Days' battles; title: lecture 14. The Kentucky campaign of 1862; title: lecture 15. Antietam; title: lecture 16. The background to emancipation; title: lecture 17. Emancipation completed; title: lecture 18. Filling the ranks; title: lecture 19. Sinews of war: finance and supply; title: lecture 20. The war in the west, winter 1862-63; title: lecture 21. The war in Virginia, winter and spring 1862-63; title: lecture 22. Gettysburg; title: lecture 23. Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma; title: lecture 24. A season of uncertainty, summer and fall 1863.; title: part 3. lecture 25. Grant at Chattanooga; title: lecture 26. The diplomatic front; title: lecture 27. African-Americans in wartime, I; title: lecture 28. African-Americans in wartime, II; title: lecture 29. Wartime reconstruction; title: lecture 30. The naval war; title: lecture 31. The river war & Confederate commerce raiders; title: lecture 32. Women at war, I; title: lecture 33. Women at war, II; title: lecture 34. Stalemate in 1864; title: lecture 35. Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia; title: lecture 36. The wilderness to Spotsylvania.; title: part 4. lecture 37. Cold Harbor to Petersburg; title: lecture 38. The Confederate home front, I; title: lecture 39. The Confederate home front, II; title: lecture 40. The Northern home front, I; title: lecture 41. The Northern home front, II; title: lecture 42. Prisoners of war; title: lecture 43. Mobile Bay and Atlanta; title: lecture 44. Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley; title: lecture 45. The final campaigns; title: lecture 46. Petersburg to Appomattox; title: lecture 47. Closing scenes and reckonings; title: lecture 48. Remembering the war.