The American Civil War

Discover the real reasons behind the Civil War and get a blow-by-blow description of what happened in each major battle with this engrossing and comprehensive course.

• By This Professor
• 01: Prelude to War
• 02: The Election of 1860
• 03: The Lower South Secedes
• 04: The Crisis at Fort Sumter
• 05: The Opposing Sides, I
• 06: The Opposing Sides, II
• 07: The Common Soldier
• 08: First Manassas or Bull Run
• 09: Contending for the Border States
• 10: Early Union Triumphs in the West
• 11: Shiloh and Corinth
• 12: The Peninsula Campaign
• 13: The Seven Days' Battles
• 14: The Kentucky Campaign of 1862
• 15: Antietam
• 16: The Background to Emancipation
• 17: Emancipation Completed
• 18: Filling the Ranks
• 19: Sinews of War-Finance and Supply
• 20: The War in the West, Winter 1862-63
• 21: The War in Virginia, Winter and Spring 1862-63
• 22: Gettysburg
• 23: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma
• 24: A Season of Uncertainty, Summer and Fall 1863
• 25: Grant at Chattanooga
• 26: The Diplomatic Front
• 27: African Americans in Wartime, I
• 28: African Americans in Wartime, II
• 29: Wartime Reconstruction
• 30: The Naval War
• 31: The River War and Confederate Commerce Raiders
• 32: Women at War, I
• 33: Women at War, II
• 34: Stalemate in 1864
• 35: Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia
• 36: The Wilderness to Spotsylvania
• 37: Cold Harbor to Petersburg
• 38: The Confederate Home Front, I
• 39: The Confederate Home Front, II
• 40: The Northern Home Front, I
• 41: The Northern Home Front, II
• 42: Prisoners of War
• 43: Mobile Bay and Atlanta
• 44: Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley
• 45: The Final Campaigns
• 46: Petersburg to Appomattox
• 47: Closing Scenes and Reckonings
• 48: Remembering the War