By Eric Paul Totten
This podcast is for the university course HIST 2003: The History of the American People to 1877. All opinions are my own and this podcast does not reflect the opinions of the University of Arkansas
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In this lecture, Dr. Totten discusses the massive economic and technological changes that fundamentally altered the young republic in the 19th century.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues the greatest trick ever played on white southerners was convincing them that disunion and the protection of slavery was a good cause and that the the Confederacy benefited the South.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues Reconstruction attempted to bring due process, equal protection of the law, and voting rights to African Americans, but was thwarted by white southerners who attempted to recreate slavery in all but name, using economic and political repression as well as white supremacist terroristic violence,
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues both northerners and southerners created false memories of the war that highlighted unity and downplayed the division that griped both home fronts.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues the Civil War was a a devastating conflict that killed 750,000 Americans.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues elite white southerners reacted to the election of Abraham Lincoln by pushing for secession. This was a rash decision, considering Lincoln never threatened slavery where it already existed. In addition, elite white southerners still held considerable congressional power and controlled the Supreme Court. Despite this, elite white southerners embraced secession despite widespread dissatisfaction with it. Seven deep southern states seceded after conventions were held, but these conventions never submitted secession for a popular vote, due to widespread resistance. The border states would never secede and the upper South only seceded after the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the rebellion. Thus, the Confederacy was on shaky foundation, as many southerners rejected its very legitimacy. This dissatisfaction with secession would be largely forgotten, as a Lost Cause emerged after the Civil War and Reconstruction, which portrayed a united South.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues the debate over the expansion of slavery into the recently conquered territories of the Mexican Cession led to the outbreak of the Secession Crisis and ultimately the American Civil War.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues the South was a slave society, where every aspect of its economy, politics, and social hierarchy was wrapped around the sinful institution.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues white Americans believed they were destined to conquer and settle the American continent. White Americans systematically ethnically cleansed Native Americans from the American southwest and West in order to make way for white settlement and exploitation. In addition, The United States fought a war with the Republic of Mexico and conquered vast stretches of their territory, known as the Mexican Cession. This led to the revival of the question over slavery's expansion into the territories, which led to the political crisis of the 1850s and eventually, the American Civil War.
In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues many middle-class Americans joined reform societies to deal with the issues created by the Market Revolution. Some Americans embraced anti-slavery, abolitionism, temperance, education, and mental health groups to improve the lives of Americans, though they also did so to wield substantial political power. Some Americans rejected these efforts, especially abolitionism, which was a tiny minority of evangelical northern Christians.
The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.