Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at Mississippi State university. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles. Thats impressive. Including his important work, sherman. A finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marszalek received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement from a mississippi author and the Historical Society presented him the highest award for National Distinction in history. H
Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at Mississippi State university. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles. Thats impressive. Including his important work, sherman. A finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marszalek received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement from a mississippi author and the Historical Society presented him the highest award for National Distinction in history. H
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
Particularly what the war had been fought for. Remember the war from the , unions point of view Abraham Lincolns point of view was a war of reunion. A war to stamp out recession. Over time, it becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victory 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 talk about when we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. Think of this as the Humpty Dumpty question. How do you put the union back together after a civil war that lasted four years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. How do you put the union back together . That is what we will talk about next time. What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues that the war raises. The second aim of union policy. In the civil war, their goal of destroying slavery. What is that going to mean . Practically what is freedom , going to mean for 4 million now former slaves in th