{"id":757,"date":"2019-01-30T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=757"},"modified":"2019-01-30T13:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:41:04","slug":"reconstruction-failures-successes-wed-jan-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2019\/01\/reconstruction-failures-successes-wed-jan-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstruction: Failures? Successes? (Wed Jan 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For lecture \/ discussion today: Chapter 14 and the multiple, competing, contentious versions of Reconstruction history &#8230; and why we&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/21\/686547376\/the-very-particular-history-being-presented-at-confederate-sites\">still living<\/a> with the legacies of that era (for more on Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler&#8217;s work on disparate funding for southern cemeteries, see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/costs-confederacy-special-report-180970731\/\">The Costs of the Confederacy<\/a>,&#8221; Smithsonian Magazine Dec 2018). <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MxCYrJiKMco\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Handout: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/HistoryChannel.FailureReconstruction.pdf\">Transcript and discussion questions for this clip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For Friday:<\/strong> in addition to reading Chapter 15, please listen to the 1-hour episode of the podcast <em>This American Life<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/479\/little-war-on-the-prairie\">Little War on the Prairie<\/a>&#8221; (November 23, 2018) about the Dakota War of 1862 and how it&#8217;s been remembered &#8212; and selectively forgotten. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For lecture \/ discussion today: Chapter 14 and the multiple, competing, contentious versions of Reconstruction history &#8230; and why we&#8217;re still living with the legacies of that era (for more on Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler&#8217;s work on disparate funding for southern cemeteries, see &#8220;The Costs of the Confederacy,&#8221; Smithsonian Magazine Dec 2018). Handout: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}