Beginning to look at what people now referred to as the liberal consensus of the 1930s and 1940s. See what is happening in terms of what is happening is terms of the main through four of american politics. What is possible in terms of action and the way people are thinking about politics in the forties and fifties. You also had three readings, all of which in different ways, deal with the idea of political ideology and all which share a set of political assumptions about the way ideas matter to politics. We will sort of be thinking today about how they kind of frame those ideas. This is a transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and the red scare into discussing sort of what else is happening in america in the 19 forties and 19 fifties. Shall we start with daniel bell . Everyones favorite reading from today. I assume there are very few questions about this one. Yes . Is he essentially saying that the political ideology are not worth it anymore. And
What does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular, what did freedom mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war Edward Stanton and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah georgia. They were preachers, pastors, late Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . Particularly, what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . The group of 20 people whose ostensibly rebranded of of free black folks and the community selected garrison frazier, a 67 year old man to be the representative of the community. To speak for them. General sherman asked them, or asked him, basically what did he understand freedom to me especially in light of the emancipation proclamation . He said basically taking us from under the yoke of bondage and placing us where we can reach the po
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Pandemic, an economic crisis and a deep uncertainty. This is an nbc news special report america in crisis. Good evening, im lester holt in minneapolis. Ten days ago george floyd was known only to his family and friends. Today he was mourned and celebrated in a nationally televised memorial service. It continues tonight at the intersection not far from here where he died. His name is known around the world. The latest in a lit of africanamerican men who have fallen victim to Police Brutality. His death has triggered a national outpouring of grief and anger and a growing resolve that tragedies like this never happen again. Tonight, peaceful protests continue across the country. Even around the world as many call for change. It all comes at a perilous point in our country. We have seen this before. But now in 2020, we are seeing all of it all at once coming at us. We are in uncharted territory. Tonight, we will look at how we got here and whats at stake. And we will meet some of the peopl
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