Reconstruction: Failures? Successes? (Wed Jan 30)
by Dr. H - January 30th, 2019
For lecture / discussion today: Chapter 14 and the multiple, competing, contentious versions of Reconstruction history … and why we’re still living with the legacies of that era (for more on Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler’s work on disparate funding for southern cemeteries, see “The Costs of the Confederacy,” Smithsonian Magazine Dec 2018).
Handout: Transcript and discussion questions for this clip
For Friday: in addition to reading Chapter 15, please listen to the 1-hour episode of the podcast This American Life, “Little War on the Prairie” (November 23, 2018) about the Dakota War of 1862 and how it’s been remembered — and selectively forgotten.
