American Civil War: Aftermath & Legacy (TRIH ep 203, part 4)
1865 · 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.
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Around 1865
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- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)