Introduce Nicole Meyers turner and her book. Nicole turner is assistant professor of religious studies at yale university. She earned her ph. D in history at the university of pennsylvania, her masters at divinity at the seminary in new york and her bachelors degree from hairford college and shes the author of this 2020 book soul liberty, postemancipation virginia published this year by the university of North Carolina press and before asking niconicole the first question i want to mention that this book appears in this conventional version of a hard copy, but also has two other versions and part of what makes her work so interesting is that it is so engaged from digital humanities and the book also exists as a conventional sort of conventional as she describes it verbatim, openaccess ebook and also as an enhanced openaccess ebook which shows off what dr. Turner was able to do with mapping and kind of Digital Technology in order to develop her Research Findings and so one of things i h
Which is like the leading journal of our profession. But he had the last laugh because guess what, in the 1960s during the civil rights era, his view of reconstruction became dominance. They saw it for what it was. And then there was the Second World War were racism was politically unfashionable. Nazism had made racism suspect and race ideas suspect. So the profession as a whole is sort of reckoning with reconstruction in different ways. And many people who write in the sixties, black and white historians, john franklin, they all right to resurrect towards these ideas reconstruction. It is also interesting that it is really a 1940 essay, writing in essay in the american historical review, he criticizes them but he praises some as going beyond the ways in which the Dining School had written about reconstruction. This view, and he wrote in the 19 eighties, you are reading unabridged version of this magnum opus. It read as a manuscript when i was a student at columbia. And what is interes
Constitutional rights given to africanamericans or as a failure because Racial Discrimination was legal and africanamericans remain unequal. So today, we are going to be talking about reconstruction. Right . So what is reconstruction . Its really the period immediately after the civil war. 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 well known in American History. As the civil war, so so far, we have been talking about the civil war, right, before the midterms, we covered the civil war. And everyone knows about the civil war. It has kind of a triumphant end. You know, at least if youre not a neoconfederate. The union wins. Slavery is destroyed. Reconstructi
Virginia at oberlin she has created the history design lab that allows students to develop scholarly projects that involve approaches that range from digital humanities, exhibit design, oral history and remember what i said about speakers and their commitment to mentorship and to education. Shes the author of essays published in 2018 and 19 in the civil war and the transformation of american citizenship and new perspectives on the union war. As i was preparing this introduction, i read her work in the flagship journal Civil War History as part of a round table discussion about the new civil war revisionism. Her book manuscripted mentioned in your printed program is now under contract, im pleased to say with the unc press. It examines how black women strategically used the laws geography of the Nations Capital to make claims to liberty during the civil war. It is from that work that her program today is derived. Free women, mobileizing emancipation and citizenship and selfmaking in wart
Elliot west is the alumni distinguished professor of history emeritus at the u of a. He earned his ph. D. At the university of colorado and the story that we hear is that he went to colorado study the history of the american south, but he was told they dont do that at university of colorado. And so he said so. Instead, he went on to become one of the leading scholars of the American West. He has written nine scholarly books, the last indian war, the nez pares story, the essential west. Hes won numerous prizes for his research, including the casey prize from the western historical association, the Francis Parkman prize from the society of american historians and the billington from the organization of american, those of you that have the good fortune to have been in class with him know that he is an outstanding teacher. Hes been recognized with the sec faculty Achievement Award arkansas professor of the year recognition from the carnegie foundation, and he was also named a finalist for