Call reconstruction. Our topic this evening if the lost history of the reconstruction amendments. I am told the lecturer hones in particularly on the 14th amendment. The professor is the author of reading rethinking the judicial construction, published in 2011 by Cambridge University press, and reconstructing reconstruction the Supreme Court and production of historical truths, published in 1999 by Duke University press. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles, chapters, and conference papers. She has delivered invited lectures from coast to coast. Professor brandwein has won several awards for her excellence as a teacher. I will not intrude on her time one moment more. Please join me in welcoming professor brandwein and inviting her today podium to the podium. [applause] professor brandwein thank you justice ginsburg. Thank you to the Supreme Court historical society. It is really an honor to be here. It is such a great privilege to be speaking to you tonight and to be speaki
Welcome back, everybody. As you know we have been in the gilded age for some time now. Weve already seen the Technological Innovations that made this economic expansion possible. We saw the economic transformations and the effect of those changes on the economy as far as lifestyles both for the very ritzy opulent robber baron lifestyles and also the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was the increasing problems of housing in the sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century. All of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. We saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime. As we talked about the farmers in this. That could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one. Today we turn our attention mostly back towards industry and in some ways back toward the city as well. I want to look at different types o
Welcome back, everybody. We have been in the gilded age we have time now and already seen the Technological Innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. Economicth the transformation and the effect of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, these opulent robber baron lifestyles and the very poor, whether it was People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was when we explored the gilded age city, the increasing problems of housing and sanitation that came with this rapid and chaotic growth of the citys in the 19th century, all of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. Time, there was some this new gilded age regime as we talk about the farmers. That lecture could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one but today, we turn our attention back toward industry and back toward the cities as well. I want to let at different types of frustration with this new order in america. Eightarted with the song hou
As far as lifestyles both for the very ritzy opulent robber baron lifestyles and also the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was the increasing problems of housing in the sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century. All of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. We saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime. As we talked about the farmers in this. That could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one. Today we turn our attention mostly back towards industry and in some ways back toward the city as well. I want to look at different types of frustrations with this new order in america. We started with the song eight hours which was a popular labor anthem in the 1880s. Youre the chorus eight hours for work eight hours for rest eight hours for what we well. In some ways that song speaks what we will
In 1877, in Munn v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling that, to this day, ranks as one of the most important victories ever rendered for farmers