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The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
Season 3
Settlers encroaching on Native American land created an "Indian problem" in the American West, which increasingly required government intervention. V…
10 hours ago
Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
Season 3
While homesteading was the backbone of western expansion, mining and cattle also played significant roles in shaping the West. Much rougher in charac…
3 days, 10 hours ago
Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
Season 3
The concept of Manifest Destiny and the strong incentives to relocate sent hundreds of thousands of people west across the Mississippi. The rigors of…
5 days, 10 hours ago
The Westward Spirit
Season 3
While a few bold settlers had moved westward before the middle of the nineteenth century, they were the exception, not the rule. The “great American …
1 week ago
Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
Season 3
Though President Johnson declared Reconstruction complete less than a year after the Confederate surrender, members of Congress disagreed. Republican…
1 week, 5 days ago
Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
Season 3
The conflict between President Johnson and the Republican-controlled Congress over the proper steps to be taken with the defeated Confederacy grew in…
2 weeks ago
Restoring the Union
Season 3
President Lincoln worked to reach his goal of reunifying the nation quickly and proposed a lenient plan to reintegrate the Confederate states. After …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Union Triumphant
Season 3
Having failed to win the support it expected from either Great Britain or France, the Confederacy faced a long war with limited resources and no alli…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
1863 The Changing Nature of the War
Season 3
The year 1863 proved decisive in the Civil War for two major reasons. First, the Union transformed the purpose of the struggle from restoring the Uni…
3 weeks ago
Early Mobilization and War
Season 3
Many in both the North and the South believed that a short, decisive confrontation in 1861 would settle the question of the Confederacy. These expect…
3 weeks, 3 days ago