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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

<"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 crisis of union and disunion in an expanding... Show More

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Humanities / History / Topical / Wars

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: October 17, 2008
Date Modified in MERLOT:: April 8, 2019
Author:: David Blight, Yale University
Submitter:: Cathy Swift
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division

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