1. The Civil War:
America’s Second Revolution
1861–1865

2. HIST 1301 Exam 2 Review on YouTube
Exam Covers Chapters 1-10

3. HIST 1301 Mini-Lectures on YouTube
Click Here for the Wk 12 Mini-Lecture Playlist

4. The Nation Disintegrates

5. Just Before the Battle Mother
Music and Words by GEORGE F. ROOT
Just before the battle,
mother,
I am thinking most of you,
While upon the field we're
watching,
With the enemy in view.
Comrades brave are
'round me lying,
Fill'd with thoughts of home
and God;
For well they know that on
the morrow,
Some will sleep beneath
the sod.
Chorus:
Farewell, mother, you may never
Press me to your heart again,
But, oh, you'll not forget me mother,
If I'm number'd with the slain.
Hark! I hear the bugles sounding,
'Tis the signal for the fight,
Now, may God protect us, Mother,
As he ever does the right.
Hear the "Battle Cry of Freedom,"
How it swells upon the air,
Oh, yes, we'll rally 'round the
standard,
Or we'll perish nobly there.

7. The Timeline to War

8. The Forces Driving Secession

9. Lincoln in Border States

10. Southerners Consider Secession

12. The North Assesses the Price of Peace

13. The Civil War Begins

14. The War for the Union and
Against Slavery

15. Comparing Military Resources

18. African Americans Open the Door to
Freedom

20. Book TV: Andrew Ward "The Slaves' War: The Civil War in
the Words of Former Slaves"

21. The “Peculiar Institution” Begins to
Unravel

23. Union Officials Consider Emancipation

26. The Confederacy and the Abolition of Slavery

27. The Confederacy and the Abolition of Slavery

28. The Cold Realities of War

29. Soldiers’ Lives

32. Ailing in Body and Soul

34. Civil War Glory Trailer

35. Freedom and American Identity

36. Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner

37. “The Battle Cry of Freedom”
Podcast from GLI

38. War Transforms the North

39. David Blight on Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

40. The Northern Economic Boom

41. Women Expand the Wartime
Workforce
Take your gun and go, John,
Take your gun and go,
For Ruth can drive the oxen,
And I can use the hoe.

43. Dissent and Protest in the
Union States

45. Dissent and Protest in the Union States
(Cont.)

47. Building Consensus Through Military
Victory

50. African Americans Battle Confederates
and Prejudice

51. African Americans Battle Confederates
and Prejudice

53. “Mississippi Sawyer”
Podcasts from GLI

54. War Transforms the South

55. Ed Ayers on the Civil War and the South

56. Urbanization and Industrialization

58. Dissent and Protest in the Confederate
States

60. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as
Commander-in-Chief
C-SPAN Archive
Lincoln and His Generals
36:22 - 41:00

61. Ulysses S. Grant

63. Military Victory Assured

66. Ed Ayers on Grant and Lee

67. Robert E. Lee

68. The South Surrenders

70. James McPherson on
Battle Cry of Freedom
C-SPAN Archive
First 5 Minutes

71. Additional Resources:
David Bight's Lectures
Civil War and Reconstruction Course
Yale University

72. 1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a
Hold on American Historical

73. 10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

74. 11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways
of Life: What Caused the Civil War?

75. 12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis,
Comparative Strategies

76. 13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate
Ascendency, 1861-1862

77. 14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning
Points in 1863

78. 15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as
Policy

79. 16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation
and Total War

80. 17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the
Social Impact of the Civil War

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

82. 19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War
and a Search for Meanings