Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War.
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EPISODE LINKS:
Gary&#8217;s UVA page: <a href="https://history.virginia.edu/people/gary-w-gallagher">https://history.virginia.edu/people/gary-w-gallagher</a>
Gary&#8217;s Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_W._Gallagher">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_W._Gallagher</a>
The Confederate War (book): <a href="https://amzn.to/4yletel">https://amzn.to/4yletel</a>
The Union War (book): <a href="https://amzn.to/3QT1jED">https://amzn.to/3QT1jED</a>
Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (book): <a href="https://amzn.to/4fdrbD5">https://amzn.to/4fdrbD5</a>
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (book): <a href="https://amzn.to/4wFxk1X">https://amzn.to/4wFxk1X</a>
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (book): <a href="https://amzn.to/4vsAogU">https://amzn.to/4vsAogU</a>
The Great Courses &#8211; The American Civil War: <a href="https://bit.ly/4gDX3mQ">https://bit.ly/4gDX3mQ</a>
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) &#8211; Introduction
(00:07) &#8211; Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:36) &#8211; What caused the Civil War?
(18:33) &#8211; Slavery
(46:07) &#8211; Lincoln
(1:01:03) &#8211; Grant vs Lee
(1:09:57) &#8211; Could the Civil War have been avoided?
(1:19:23) &#8211; The bloodiest war in US history
(1:36:31) &#8211; How the Confederate Army could&#8217;ve won
(1:57:05) &#8211; Key battles of the Civil War
(2:20:07) &#8211; Best and Worst Presidents
(2:34:06) &#8211; Robert E. Lee
(2:53:40) &#8211; The most important battle of the Civil War
(3:03:51) &#8211; The final showdown of the Civil War &#8211; Grant vs Lee
(3:26:10) &#8211; Lost Cause and Confederate Monuments
(3:43:37) &#8211; Extreme political division in US

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