CSPAN3 Lectures In History February 7, 2016
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 c...