Watch Eric Foner's Civil War Course Part I Here at CivilWarTalk

[chellers]

Yikes! Thanks for the notice, Mr. Young. I'm on Section 5; the hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

 

[Pat Young]

Yikes! Thanks for the notice, Mr. Young. I'm on Section 5; the hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

I know the feeling.

 

[John Winn]

Yikes! Thanks for the notice, Mr. Young. I'm on Section 5; the hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Binge watching is the only way.

 

[Pat Young]

Binge watching is the only way.

There are 21 more hours of lectures that will be released in the series.

 

[John Winn]

There are 21 more hours of lectures that will be released in the series.

I eagerly await my fate and have bought a 1950s TV dinner tray table so as to be able to watch while eating.

 

[Pat Young]

I eagerly await my fate and have bought a 1950s TV dinner tray table so as to be able to watch while eating.

A necessary implement of learning.

 

[Sid J.]

The fall 2014 issue of Columbia Magazine has an article on Foner and the creation of the on-line courses.

 

[Pat Young]

The fall 2014 issue of Columbia Magazine has an article on Foner and the creation of the on-line courses.

Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Pat Young]

Hi

 

[Pat Young]

I will be posting the final lecture in Foner's treatment of the coming of the war later today. It looks at the Secession Crisis and ends with the firing in Ft.Sumter.

 

[Pat Young]

Here is the Intro to this week's lecture on the Secession Crisis. This is the last week for this series on the coming of the Civil War. A new series on the war itself begins in December.

 

[Pat Young]

First, Foner looks at the idea of secession in 1860:

 

[Pat Young]

Here are Professor Foner's Teaching Assistants discussing some of the issues at the beginning of 1861:

 

[Pat Young]

Foner discusses whether the Confederacy was a nation:

 

[Pat Young]

The Road to Secession was paved by slaves:

 

[Pat Young]

South Carolina was the natural place for secession to begin. It was the fountain of Secession ideology:

 

[Pat Young]

I'll put up the rest tonight.

 

[Pat Young]

Find out how the Buchanan administration dealt with the secession of the Deep South states:

 

[Pat Young]

Professor Foner and his favorite grad student discuss the fact that many Northern economic elites opposed the war, yet the political elites overrode them to prevent secession:

 

[Pat Young]

Lincoln stood as a block on any compromise that included the expansion of slavery and he equally opposed the departure of the slave states: