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
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Crimean War (1853)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)