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#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
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Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War.
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Gary’s UVA page: https://history.virginia.edu/people/gary-w-gallagher
Gary’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_W._Gallagher
The Confederate War (book): https://amzn.to/4yletel
The Union War (book): https://amzn.to/3QT1jED
Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (book): https://amzn.to/4fdrbD5
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (book): https://amzn.to/4wFxk1X
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (book): https://amzn.to/4vsAogU
The Great Courses – The American Civil War: https://bit.ly/4gDX3mQ
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OUTLINE:
() – Introduction
() – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
() – What caused the Civil War?
() – Slavery
() – Lincoln
() – Grant vs Lee
() – Could the Civil War have been avoided?
() – The bloodiest war in US history
() – How the Confederate Army could’ve won
() – Key battles of the Civil War
() – Best and Worst Presidents
() – Robert E. Lee
() – The most important battle of the Civil War
() – The final showdown of the Civil War – Grant vs Lee
() – Lost Cause and Confederate Monuments
() – Extreme political division in US
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