TY - GEN AU - Gallagher,Gary W. ED - Teaching Company TI - The American Civil War T2 - The Great courses AV - LB 14.6 G162a 2000 U1 - 370 PY - 2000/// CY - Chantilly, Virginia PB - The Teaching Company KW - Education. KW - Teaching KW - Educación KW - Enseñanza KW - Estados Unidos KW - Historia KW - Guerra civil, 1861-1865 KW - Causas KW - Guerra de Secesión, 1861-1865 KW - Estados del sur N1 - Course no. 885 24 lectures contained in the corresponding DVDs; Prelude to war -- The election of 1860 -- The lower South secedes -- The crisis at Fort Sumter -- The opposing sides, I -- The opposing sides, II -- The common soldier -- First Manassas or Bull Run -- Contending for the border states -- Early Union triumphs in the west -- Shiloh and Corinth -- The Peninsula Campaign -- The Seven Days' battles -- The Kentucky campaign of 1862 -- Antietam -- The background to emancipation -- Emancipation completed -- Filling the ranks -- Sinews of war-finance and supply -- The war in the west, winter 1862-63 -- The war in Virginia, winter and spring 1862-63 -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma -- A season of uncertainty, summer and fall 1863 -- Grant at Chattanooga -- The diplomatic front -- African-Americans in wartime, I -- African-Americans in wartime, II -- Wartime reconstruction -- The naval war -- The river war & Confederate commerce raiders -- Women at war, I -- Women at war, II -- Stalemate in 1864 -- Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia -- The wilderness to Spotsylvania -- Cold Harbor to Petersburg -- The Confederate home front, I -- The Confederate home front, II -- The Northern home front, I -- The Northern home front, II -- Prisoners of war -- Mobile Bay and Atlanta -- Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley -- The final campaigns -- Petersburg to Appomattox -- Closing scenes and reckonings -- Remembering the war N2 - Examines the causes of the American Civil War, why the North won, how military campaigns unfolded, and how the war affected various elements of American society ER -