CSPAN3 The Civil War Reflections On Writing About The Civil War July 14, 2024
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. I had my students go online and say, what do we think about reconstruction . They came back with the same answer. What were teaching our students is that reconstruction was a failure. Either from the left or the right, people are saying its a failure. I thought that was too easy. The most ambitious experience in American History, calling it a failure doesnt seem adequate. Here is what we found is that the opponents of freedom, the opponents of reconstruction fought so long and hard during and after the war that the u. S. Government, the u. S. Army and a smal...