tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post4267435735506004016..comments2024-03-10T09:24:45.565+02:00Comments on Dispatches from Vilnius: Time to put the "Lost Cause" behind usJames Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-8190009628294708392017-08-23T12:07:36.124+03:002017-08-23T12:07:36.124+03:00Great book. He and Leon Litwack did a great job o...Great book. He and Leon Litwack did a great job of resurrecting Reconstruction as it had long disappeared from most history books. They focused heavily on WEB DuBois classic book from the 1930s which revealed the so-called Dunning School for the fraud that it was.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-80806396017771419822017-08-22T19:53:46.594+03:002017-08-22T19:53:46.594+03:00As I've probably mentioned before, Foner's...As I've probably mentioned before, Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution: 1863-77" is a sobering and disheartening read.Rick Diguettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556088192579865532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-66796912161245549462017-08-22T09:26:10.384+03:002017-08-22T09:26:10.384+03:00Foner's article in NYTimes:
https://www.nytime...Foner's article in NYTimes:<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/opinion/confederate-statues-american-history.htmlJames Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-52202194450879655762017-08-22T09:24:05.731+03:002017-08-22T09:24:05.731+03:00Foner also heavily criticized Ken Burns for romant...Foner also heavily criticized Ken Burns for romanticizing the Civil War and not including Reconstruction. Eventually, PBS did a documentary on Reconstruction. So little is said about how the South fought Reconstruction kicking and screaming, viewing it as an imposition worse than the Civil War itself, which is why we have so many of these damn memorials.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-50266967895806120472017-08-22T08:07:26.380+03:002017-08-22T08:07:26.380+03:00https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHoGbuCXcAA62pT.jpg
...https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHoGbuCXcAA62pT.jpg<br /><br /><br />Yes, indeed. Highly ironic.Tripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-19124664746695927822017-08-22T08:00:06.919+03:002017-08-22T08:00:06.919+03:00I shall have to take a look at that Foner article....I shall have to take a look at that Foner article. You might recall when we were in the NY Times American History forum, he was interviewed by that paper. Readers were invited to pose a question to him and seven queries were posted. You may possibly recall that he singled out my question re Congressman Bingham (Ohio) and his creation of US Constitutional Amendments 13-15 for having discussed Tripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-50955679662226033832017-08-22T03:06:12.769+03:002017-08-22T03:06:12.769+03:00If more people understood when the vast majority o...If more people understood when the vast majority of these statues were erected, it's possible the polling numbers would look somewhat different. Th NYTimes published a very good piece by Eric Foner either yesterday or today on this very subject.Rick Diguettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556088192579865532noreply@blogger.com