Modern scholar.

Compact disc

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?

14 lectures ; 7 compact discs