Richard Stewart: BA Allegheny College, MA Wesleyan University, Teacher of US and World History at Choate Rosemary Hall, CT.
Two classes
10:30 – 12:00
November 9 & 16
Reconstruction presented the country with awesome challenges: how to readmit the states that had seceded before the Civil War, what should be the status of the four million formerly enslaved persons, and which branch of the US government should take the leading role in addressing these challenges? The first class will address the rise of the Radical Republicans and their goals of freedom and equality for the freed persons. The second will examine the fracturing of the Radicals’ coalition and the rise of the Redeemers, bent on thwarting the freed persons’ aspirations and establishing eight decades of Jim Crow laws.
