Every saturday, at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts explores the history of the United States through objects. Up next, we visit capitol hill to talk to house historian and curator about the history of africanamericans in congress and see a selection of artifacts from the collection. The story of how africanamericans come to congress is not one that a lot of people are familiar with. We had 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house, two in the senate. Its largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war and in the decade after. During the civil war, there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house like Thaddeus Stevens
Presidencpresident s into the bos featured historians, visit cspan. Org the president s available in paperback, hardback and ebook, wherever books are sold. Welcome to the program supposed to be cosponsored by the university of history. My name is jim andsign presidenand im president of theg important books in American History which 18th century volumes behind me or current important books by some of the major prizewinning historians in the country. William roka at the institute most recently on the Hamilton Education program, william will present the historians and then died the question and answer session towards the end. Other programs sponsored by lehrman. Good afternoon everyone is welcome to the Gilder Lehrman book break here on june 14. Welcome, everyone. Todays guest will be professor Elizabeth Varon in her book, armies of deliverance. For those that are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute, first welcome. We are so glad you could join us. To tell you just a little bi
Its really the period immediately after the civil war is the period of reconstruction. Why is it called reconstruction . Because we are talking about the reconstruction of the union, right, of the seceded states that had formed the confederacy. Theyre now defeated. And the question then becomes is how do they reenter the union . How do we reconstruct the union . And that is why this period is known as reconstruction. It is not that wellknown in American History as the civil war. So, so far weve been talking simply about the civil war, right . Before the midterms, we covered the civil war. Everyone knows about the civil war. It has kind of a triumphant end, at least if youre not a newer confederate. The union wins. Slavery is destroyed. Reconstruction, on the other hand, does not have a happy ending. Its a great experiment in racial democracy immediately after the war, but it is overthrown. Maybe we all like happy endings, and thats one of the seasons we dont know that much about recons
Historian. History my ba and ma in from the university of pennsylvania. I went on to work alongside the u. S. Army corps of engineers as a historian archivists. About a year into this i began the tattooed historian on facebook. I used it as a way to show the archival things we were finding. I was really enjoying the process because we were going through the archives and we were trying to see what was in the archives and the condition it was in. So i was taking photographs of and papers,tifacts documents, stuff like that to showcase people. Showcase things for people who cannot check it out. And this thing blew up. I was not expecting that. I was expecting to get maybe 100 people to follow along and maybe find my next job. Was in went on linkedin a sexy thing so i was using facebook. Everyone was on facebook so i was like, we will use that. Up morewent on a built and more and i got on more platforms. I reached out on twitter and instagram. I went fulltime with this 2018. T in april of i
Welcome to our new Program Sponsored by the Institute American history. Im president of the institute were going to presenting important books in American History which involves important books i some of the major pestilence in the country. Our host will be william roka who works at the institute. William represent each of the asteroids and then guide is question and answer session toward the end. If you think you might like of the Program Sponsored by Gilder Lehrman please go to our website Gilder Lehrman. Org. Now enjoy book breaks. Hello and good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Gilder Lehrman book breaks here on june 14. Welcome everyone. Todays guest will be professor Elizabeth Varon and a book armies of deliverance. For you guys who are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute of American History, first come welcome. Were so glad you could join us. Just a little bit about Gilder Lehrman, the guild of them institute is a Nonprofit Organization dedicated to k12 history,