Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad

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

This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss-of-will thesis, which suggests that it was a lack of conviction on the home front that ass...View more