Lecture 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 by Open Yale Courses - David Blight

This lecture picks off where the previous one left off, with a discussion of the legacies of John Brown. The most important thing about John Brown's raid, Professor Blight argues, was not the event itself, but the way Am...View more