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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

This is a free online course from Yale.

'This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history. Those meanings may be defined in many ways: national, sectional, racial, constitutional, individual, social, intellectual, or moral. Four broad themes are closely examined: the...

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Humanities / History / Area Studies / Americas / United States / Civil War

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: June 18, 2012
Date Modified in MERLOT:: June 18, 2012
Author:: David W. Blight, Yale University
Submitter:: Cathy Swift
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Website

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Technical Requirements:: Download videos
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States