Stephen its get started for today then. This is our first class about reconstruction. I want to first go back and talk about the war. What the war had been fought for. The war from the unions point of view Abraham Lincolns point of view was a war of reunion. Over time the war becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victories of union armies on the battlefield doesnt in itself resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. The Humpty Dumpty question, how do you put the union back together after civil war that has lasted for years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. How do you put the union back together . What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues, the second aim of union policy. The goal of destroying slavery. What is that going to mean practically . What is freedom going to mean for 4 million former slaves in the United States . We talk in prior weeks about what
About the war. What the war had been fought for. The war from the unions point of view abraham lakins point of lincolns point of view was a war reunion. Over time the war becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victories of union armies on the battlefield doesnt in itself resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. The Humpty Dumpty question have you put the union back together after civil war that has lasted for years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. Had he put the union back together . What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues, the second aim of union policy. Destroying slavery. What is that going to mean practically . What is freedom going to mean for 4 million former slaves in the United States . We talk in prior weeks about what slavery was and we talked about in various aspects. It affected every aspect of american life, politics, culture, society. T
Presentation today i have not provided you with adequate evidence to support this claim. The evidence is the book. An added reason for you to buy it. So, in conclusion, there are two things i want for you, two things i hope you will get from reading my book. One, i hope and i rather expect that, after its a continuation of project that began with the previous book, which is the one that we mentioned, on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The book prompted me to think anew about the process which slavery was destroyed during the civil war and ended up producing the book. You mentioned Freedom National last year, and this book is part of the continuing rethinking of that process of slaverys destruction. Revised things in the lincolndouglass book and this book revises some things in the Freedom National book. What they all seem to be doing is et complicating the usual sie narrative of how slavery was destroyed. There are several of them out there. The most familiar one is lincoln fre
Its sunday, november 2 pped. Good morning, everyone. Ill tell you what, that extra hour of sleep, i do feel pretty good. I was staring at my clock going, is that is the right time; right . Which is the right time. I get so nervous. I know. Then i walk into my kitchen an en im going, thats not right. Good morning to you. Hopefully you remembered to move that clock back. 7 00 with beautiful sunshine. San francisco this morning. From the east bay you can see mostly clear skies. We have a Beautiful Day already underway. Perhaps just a few patch of fog out there and thats really about it. Partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies. Theres a look at Storm Tracker two. The radar no longer on. We are dry and we are going to continue to be dry over the next several days it looks like. Well talk about today. Its a cool start. Cooler for many of us because of clearing. 45 degrees in oakland. Thats a cool start. Napa, youre the winner there. 37 degrees outside your door. Thats a chilly one. As we get int
Pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capitol. We will develop a vision for this iconic street which is home to so Many National treasures, including this building. I want to send a thanks to the National Parks service and recognize peter may. He is a fellow ncpc commissioner but his day job is associate director for lands, resources, and planning. Fort totten, fort reno, fort dupont. Locals may recognize these names as parks, neighborhoods, even metro stations but many are surprised to learn about their civil war history. The civil war was a milestone in the nations history. The role of famous battlefields like gettysburg and antietam are wellknown to all of us. Today we are going to learn about another important albeit less wellknown battle that took place not far from where we are today. Were it not for the defenses built to protect washington, d. C. The battle of fort stevens, the city of washington, d. C. Could be in a different place today. Today we will learn about