S4 E4: The Second Revolution
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The Reconstruction Era - Lincoln's Second Inauguration
i taught for some years at a public university south carolina, a state which has long been known for issues around race and diversity. There was a time when the flagship public university in south carolina had a student body that was overwhelmingly black. And it wasn't after the civil rights movement in the sixties and seventies. It was in the 18 seventies, less than ten years after the civil war. No historians have called reconstruction the second revolution or the second founding. i think this really shows something that we get wrong about the progression of democracy in this country,. That we think it just kind of moves steadily forward and upward. We saw this dramatic expansion of democracy, at least temporarily
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