I will put it up, this afternoon we’ll get it up on the Web, through the Registrar’s site or however. I felt a little badly about it but - Just don’t make it so obvious.Īll right, does everybody have a syllabus, anyone lacking a syllabus, everyone’s got a copy? We may need some more, the balcony people need syllabi. The poor guy crumpled up his newspaper and walked out the back and he never came back. So I shouted it again, and by that time the whole class was beginning to laugh, uncomfortably, and he finally realized what was going on. And at one point I stopped, rather loudly, and I said, “The Dred Scott decision is not covered in today’s Yale Daily News.” And he didn’t hear me. But he’s just reading the Yale Daily News in front of him. I didn’t know there was that much to read in it for that long, most of the time. He came in - it was the day I was lecturing on the Dred Scott decision, for some reason I’ve never forgotten that - and he whipped out the Yale Daily News, and he just was enjoying the Yale Daily News. He was right back there in that aisle-way, halfway back. Just don’t do what one student did a year ago, though. This is obviously a terribly formal situation, me up here on this stage and you out there, looking into your laptops in some cases, doing whatever you’re doing on your laptops. I’ll ask at times if you have any questions. But at least you’ll have a sense of the structure of the topics or the themes that this lecture is supposed to work its way through. But every lecture will have an outline in front of you, and the intention in every case is to get to the fifth part of that outline. I will occasionally use some visuals, slides here and there, a painting here and there, an image now and then, and certainly maps, especially in dealing with the 1850s and the coming of the Civil War. I’m going to try to write a little bigger from now on, and it’s been already suggested I use capital letters and maybe practice my printing a little better. Professor David Blight: Okay, there’s an outline up here. Professor Blight concludes with the Panic of 1873 and the seemingly innumerable political scandals of the Grant Administration, suggesting the manner in which these events encouraged northerners to tire of the Reconstruction experiment by the early 1870s.The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 HIST 119 - Lecture 1 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination? The Cruikshank case, two years later, would overturn the convictions of the only three men sentenced for their involvement in Colfax, and marked another step away from reconstruction. On the same day as the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court offered a narrow reading of the 14th Amendment in the Slaughterhouse cases, signaling a judicial retreat from the radicalism of the early Reconstruction years. Two Supreme Court decisions would do in the judicial realm what the Colfax Massacre had done in the political. history, when a white mob killed dozens of African Americans in the April of 1873. Colfax, Louisiana was the sight of the largest mass murder in U.S. Professor Blight begins with an account the Colfax Massacre. This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction.
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