Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction

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

Aug 25, 2017Education

In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of the Civil War. Even before the war's end,...

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