{"id":168,"date":"2012-04-28T20:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?p=168"},"modified":"2022-09-03T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T16:44:38","slug":"reconstruction-era-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/2012\/04\/28\/reconstruction-era-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstruction Era Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Eric Foner writes in A Short History of Reconstruction <\/em>(1990) that, “Four interrelated areas reveal the extent and limits of Republican efforts to reshape Southern society:\u00a0 education, race relations, the labor system, economic development” (p. 156).\u00a0 Students in History 288 should be able to explain what Foner means by this statement and how the politics of 1868 in particular reveal the limits of Republican efforts to transform the South.\u00a0 Foner’s narrative is thick with revealing details, but\u00a0 students should try to identify at least one example for each category.\u00a0 For those who want to visualize these issues, consult the online exhibit built around Foner’s groundbreaking work from the University of Houston’s “Digital History” site:\u00a0 “America’s Reconstruction.”<\/a>\u00a0 The slideshows are full of fascinating stories and great images, such as a rare photograph<\/a> of an auction of confiscated Confederate lands in South Carolina in 1865, the image of a black marriage ceremony <\/a>after the war, “reunion” advertisements<\/a> by former slaves seeking lost relatives, the roll book <\/a>for a black school in Richmond, excerpts from the infamous Black Codes<\/a>, original text from the Reconstruction era amendments and civil rights laws<\/a>, and a startling cartoon<\/a> about the Freedman’s Bureau produced in Pennsylvania (see below).<\/p>\n

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Eric Foner writes in A Short History of Reconstruction (1990) that, “Four interrelated areas reveal the extent and limits of Republican efforts to reshape Southern society:\u00a0 education, race relations, the labor system, economic development” (p. 156).\u00a0 Students in History 288 should be able to explain what Foner means by this statement and how the politics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}