This week in
class we confront the challenges of Reconstruction and its ultimate failures.
Daytime students started that on Monday and will finish it early in the class period on Wednesday. Nighttime students will ride that bronco starting at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday night.
But we
will also look at some more cheerful--or at least neutral--aspects of the time
period. Reconstruction overlaps with another period we'll start covering next
week; it's called the Gilded Age. It was a whirling mixture of progress, greed,
accomplishment, violence, cultural achievement, huge inequities of wealth, and
more.
We'll
look at several developments, many of them accomplishments, of the early Gilded
Age.
One hint
about that coverage which will spark the question, "Why is this
here?": barbed wire.
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