BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at Virginia Humanities. There’s the history you had to learn, and the history you want to learn - that’s where BackStory comes in. Each week BackStory takes a topic that people are talking about and explores it through the lens of American history. Through stories, interviews, and conversations with our listeners, BackStory makes histo ...
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Westward Expansion, Slavery, & Secession
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War, compromise, violence on the floor of the senate, blood on the frontier, then war again. We discuss how slavery and westward expansion put the Nation on the road to civil war.
Chapters
1. Introduction (00:00:00)
2. Background (00:03:21)
3. Texas (00:04:48)
4. The Mexican-American War (00:07:09)
5. Regional Philosophies (00:12:33)
6. Wilmot Proviso (00:20:45)
7. Compromise of 1850 (00:22:07)
8. Kansas-Nebraska (00:26:00)
9. Bleeding Kansas (00:30:12)
10. Dred Scott (00:37:32)
11. Lincoln and the West (00:42:46)
12. Secession and War (00:46:05)
13. Conclusion (00:48:53)
24 episodes
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War, compromise, violence on the floor of the senate, blood on the frontier, then war again. We discuss how slavery and westward expansion put the Nation on the road to civil war.
Chapters
1. Introduction (00:00:00)
2. Background (00:03:21)
3. Texas (00:04:48)
4. The Mexican-American War (00:07:09)
5. Regional Philosophies (00:12:33)
6. Wilmot Proviso (00:20:45)
7. Compromise of 1850 (00:22:07)
8. Kansas-Nebraska (00:26:00)
9. Bleeding Kansas (00:30:12)
10. Dred Scott (00:37:32)
11. Lincoln and the West (00:42:46)
12. Secession and War (00:46:05)
13. Conclusion (00:48:53)
24 episodes
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