And the lincoln assassination i think, changes the trajectory of this story. So i dont counterfactuals. I dont know what would have been different head lincoln lived. But i do try to show that for a brief period, for four years, the white house is different than it was before, and it is different than it would be for a long time after. Well, thank you very much, john. Well, good morning. Everybody. Good to see you. Weve been looking at aspects of gilded age good morning everybody. Good to see you. Weve been looking at aspects of the gilded age and the progressive era progressive life. In early weeks we looked at the west, the south, the capital and labor progressive reforms. Today, we are looking at the life of one crucially important figure in this period helps to flesh out the concrete life of some of those asked abstract ideas weve been looking at. Today we are looking at the life and career of Theodore Roosevelt. Not the last time we will come back to him in this class. This is spe
Everybody. Good to see you. Weve been looking at aspects of gilded age and progressive era American Life for the last couple weeks. Weve looked at the west weve looked at the jim crow south. Weve looked at capital and labor and progressive reforms. Today were looking at how the life of one crucially important figure from this period helps the flesh out. And kind of concrete life some of those abstract ideas that weve been looking at so today were looking at the life and career Theodore Roosevelt. Not the last time that well come back to him in this class. But today kind of just specifically geared toward him. His life does fit the themes of the gilded age progressive era very well, and its also part of my area of research. So taylor is primarily teaching institution, but all of your faculty are doing research on their own is time permits. And for me, ive finished writing a book last year on the religious life of Theodore Roosevelt. So this is a time for me to get to actually talk about
Everybody. Good to see you. Weve been looking at aspects of gilded age and progressive era American Life for the last couple weeks. Weve looked at the west weve looked at the jim crow south. Weve looked at capital and labor and progressive reforms. Today were looking at how the life of one crucially important figure from this period helps the flesh out. And kind of concrete life some of those abstract ideas that weve been looking at so today were looking at the life and career Theodore Roosevelt. Not the last time that well come back to him in this class. But today kind of just specifically geared toward him. His life does fit the themes of the gilded age progressive era very well, and its also part of my area of research. So taylor is primarily teaching institution, but all of your faculty are doing research on their own is time permits. And for me, ive finished writing a book last year on the religious life of Theodore Roosevelt. So this is a time for me to get to actually talk about
Catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appearedded as a people apart, a people dangerously apart. Catholic efforts to participate in mainstream american institutions only seemed to make things worse, and this is pe
Suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appearedded as a people apart, a people dangerously apart. Catholic efforts to participate in mainstream american institutions only seemed to make things worse, and this is perhaps most clear in the area that we will look at today, politics. From the founding, even really before the founding of the united states, many protestantamericans believed that the hierarchical authority, structures of the Catholic Church instilled submission and civility in catholics. You can recall that reading from john adams in the canon of feudal law where he described the Catholic Church as the root of all evil, c