American Civil War: The Causes (TRIH eps 200-203)
1861 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook with guest Professor Adam Smith (Oxford), continues a multi-part exploration of the American Civil War and its long aftermath. The discussion examines Appomattox and Robert E. Lee's surrender, how immediate postwar choices and Lincoln's assassination shaped Reconstruction, and the origins and endurance of the Lost Cause myth. Adam Smith assesses the legal and political gains of Reconstruction — notably the Fourte...
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Around 1861
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)