#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee

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:
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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):
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Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (book):
https://amzn.to/4wFxk1X
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (book):
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The Great Courses – The American Civil War:
https://bit.ly/4gDX3mQ


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OUTLINE:
(00:00) – Introduction
(00:07) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:36) – What caused the Civil War?
(18:33) – Slavery
(46:07) – Lincoln
(1:01:03) – Grant vs Lee
(1:09:57) – Could the Civil War have been avoided?
(1:19:23) – The bloodiest war in US history
(1:36:31) – How the Confederate Army could’ve won
(1:57:05) – Key battles of the Civil War
(2:20:07) – Best and Worst Presidents
(2:34:06) – Robert E. Lee
(2:53:40) – The most important battle of the Civil War
(3:03:51) – The final showdown of the Civil War – Grant vs
Lee
(3:26:10) – Lost Cause and Confederate Monuments
(3:43:37) – Extreme political division in US