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

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Teaches Appomattox, the war's end and the search for its meaning. David Blight is a Pulitzer and Bancroft prize-winning historian of the era, and this full Yale course is grounded in primary sources and current scholarship.

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Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 19: Appomattox, the war's end and the search for its meaning.

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