American Civil War: The Causes (TRIH eps 200-203)
1850–1865 · Resource
A four-part series on the American Civil War with Professor Adam Smith: its causes, the secession crisis and outbreak, Gettysburg, and the aftermath, Reconstruction and the Lost Cause myth.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1850
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)