Clipper Audio ; [Prince Frederick, Md.] : [Distributed by Recorded Books]
2011
(1 audio file).
Modern scholar.
Audio file.Title from image of compact disc container on Web page (viewed Feb. 19, 2011).Previously released on compact disc, 2003.14 lectures.
A nation delayed --; The dilemma: America as two nations --; The warrior: Robert E. Lee --; The epic fall of Richmond --; The chase, Grant hot on Lee's heels --; The fateful decision: guerrilla war? --; U.S. Grant and the historic meeting at Appomattox --; April 14, decapitation and the great unraveling --; Abraham Lincoln: on whom so much depends --; Post-assassination: would it now all come undone? --; The volatile ones: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Bill Sherman --; The surrender continues --; The final obstacles to reconciliation --; What happened to make a nation?
This course explores the waning days of the Civil War in examining the dramatic events leading up to April 1865 and ponders some of the alternative outcomes which if realized would have changed the formation of the United States as we know it today.