Antebellum congress. Well start with a review of the first and Second Party Systems. Im then going to introduce a concept, a new concept to you. Thats the idea of political culture. Ill compare that to something weve in counter before, Political Parties. Finally the bulk of the lecture is presenting evidence, new evidence, in fact, some drawn from my own research and from those of other scholars in the antebellum culture. I have three major areas to talk about today. One, Tobacco Culture. Two, political friendships. Three, affairs of honor. Well conclude there after getting through that evidence. All right. So like we obvious do in the class im going to start with an image on the screen and im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take is in. Who can point out something you see right away that strikes you . There we go. Yeah. Lady washington is on a platform. Yeah. Like how high do you think she is maybe off the ground . Like, i dont kn
Then im going to introduce a new concept to you, and thats the idea of political culture. And i will compare that concept to something weve encountered before, Political Parties. And finally, the bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence, in fact on the antebellum political culture. I have three major areas of evidence to talk about today, one, Tobacco Culture, two, political friendships, and, three, affairs of honor. And well conclude there after getting through that evidence. All right. Like we obvious do in the class, im going to start today with an image on the screen and im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take it in. Who can point out something that you see right away that strikes you . There we go. Lady washington is on a platform. Yeah. How high do you think she is, maybe, off the ground . Like, i dont know, a foot. A good foot. Thats a good piece there. What else do you see . Another one down there. Thank
People and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional posturing. That takes place in the 1850s. It was compounded by two weak president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by michael holt, professor of history for many years at the niversity of virginia. In fact, the mentor to both Rachel Sheldon and me. I think i was his first phd students, and rachel maybe his final one. That is quite the bookend. The political crisis of the 1850s was a piece that ran through michaels lectures at yale, and when he joined the faculty at the university of virginia in the mid1970s. It became the basis for a book, a very influential book that he wrote, and it has had staying power in the conversation amongst scholars ever since. It is pretty easy to understand why that is so. You just have to think about what happens after the gold rush in california as the w
like to call this i would like to call this roundtable to order. okay, i ve always wanted to do that. hello everyone and welcome to our round table today constitutional history is political history. i m dr. yvonne pitts. i m an associate professor and i proudly call purdue s history department my home. i m affiliated with women s gender and sexuality studies american studies and critical. abilities, i m currently working on a project on transformations in jurisdictional authority during the american civil war. the timing for this round table is certainly propipitous propitious. excuse me. we wait with bated breath at least most of us in this room for a supreme court decisions that may well become the landmark decisions. we are teaching years from now. so before i introduce our panel, it would like to. thinkers with a special shout out. to dr. rachel sheldon and my colleague dr. katie brunell who organized this wonderful conference and round table and without their vision. thi
that s just he here so i would like to call this i would like to call this roundtable to order. okay, i ve always wanted to do that. hello everyone and welcome to our round table today constitutional history is political history. i m dr. yvonne pitts. i m an associate professor and i proudly call purdue s history department my home. i m affiliated with women s gender and sexuality studies american studies and critical. abilities, i m currently working on a project on transformations in jurisdictional authority during the american civil war. the timing for this round table is certainly propipitous propitious. excuse me. we wait with bated breath at least most of us in this room for a supreme court decisions that may well become the landmark decisions. we are teaching years from now. so before i introduce our panel, it would like to. thinkers with a special shout out. to dr. rachel sheldon and my colleague dr. katie brunell who organized this wonderful conference and round tabl