...of the #MagnaCarta 2), which only applied to barrons and the clergy, the #US despite #Reconstruction and all the Amendments was never able to really overcome systemic racism and plutocratic discrimination. In fact, ever since #CitizensUnitedVsFEC, the pendulum has been swinging in the opposite direction, so far culminating in the overturning of #RoeVsWade.
When #republicans lose an election, they break everything like petulant children.
When #republicans win an election, they break everything like petulant children.
Personally, I want #republican states to become independent from the US so the remaining Democracy can recapture the secession states after they are cut off from power and water sources.
The #confederate#fascists and #slavers need a good reminder after a few generations of subversive treason. They all got off without consequence back in 1865.
Today In Labor History March 27, 1866: President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. However, Congress overrode his veto and passed the bill, the first time this had occurred over any major legislation. The bill was the first in the U.S. to define citizenship, and to affirm equal rights under the law for all citizens, including African Americans. Johnson’s rationale for the veto was that the law “discriminated” against whites in favor of blacks.
1902 wurde in Gammertingen ein reich ausgestattetes frühmittelalterliches #Grab entdeckt. Unter den Beigaben befand sich u.a. ein #Kettenhemd, das in seiner Vollständigkeit einzigartig ist. Mehr zum Grab --> @googlearts
Politics of days past made #impeachment a way to escape conviction by law of a federal officer.
1875ish
"Grant blundered in accepting the hurried resignation of Secretary of War William W. Belknap, who was impeached on charges of accepting bribes; because he was no longer a government official, Belknap escaped conviction."
"Twenty-five historians of the civil war and Reconstruction filed a US supreme court brief in support of the attempt by Colorado to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from running for office."
This is an exceptionally powerful docu series about #Reconstruction, as told through a #blackhistory lens by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.
My current research activity consists of feeling out how many elements of what #Dewey would reconstruct into #pragmatism were already manifest in his national environment. And it strikes me that certain key Afro-American figures are those who most profoundly embodied that #philosophy in their acts.
This is an exceptionally powerful docu series about #Reconstruction, as told through a #blackhistory lens by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.
My current research activity consists of feeling out how many elements of what Dewey would reconstruct into #pragmatism were already manifest in his national environment. And it strikes me that certain key Afro-American figures are those who most profoundly embodied that #philosophy in their acts.
"I believe that #education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social #consciousness; and that the
adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social
consciousness is the only sure method of social #reconstruction."
John #Dewey, "My Pedagogic Creed" (1897)
"I believe that #education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social #consciousness; and that the
adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social
consciousness is the only sure method of social #reconstruction."
John #Dewey, "My Pedagogic Creed" (1897)
Historian James D. Anderson argues that the freed slaves were the first Southerners "to campaign for universal, state-supported public education". Blacks in the Republican coalition played a critical role in establishing the principle in state constitutions for the first time during congressional Reconstruction. Some slaves had learned to read from White playmates or colleagues before formal education was allowed by law; African Americans started "native schools" before the end of the war; Sabbath schools were another widespread means that freedmen developed to teach literacy. When they gained suffrage, Black politicians took this commitment to public education to state constitutional conventions.
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The line for the show was so long but we made it. It was pretty good. Also I found out Degas’s family was in the cotton business and had to look it up. 😬
The current status of the #reconstruction of my #homestudio. The #acousticmodule (s) and the cabling for the #tabletop#synthesizer (s) are still to be done. But soon after that, I plan to ceremoniously run #power to the system for the first time. 🥳
I already have a 1000 watt #ups setup to intercept #powercut (s) that have become more frequent recently. We may have to invest in a #photovoltaic system in the future. 🤔 #babystep (s)
How did the losers end up writing the #history of the #CivilWar and spreading the popular lie of a heroic #Confederacy in a war about states' rights instead of slavery?
"Oddly, the explanation reaches back to the pro-Confederate Dunning School of Reconstruction history at #ColumbiaUniversity... installed a white-supremacist curriculum at Columbia and dispatched doctoral students to set up pro-Confederate #USHistory departments at Southern universities." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3NBV7vA
"Until a few years ago, I was among the thousands of #Southerners who never knew they had kin buried under Union Army headstones."
#Secession and #slavery were not as popular among the masses as they want you to think:
"two-thirds of #Alabama families did not own enslaved people"
"after the Compromise of 1877 ended #Reconstruction, plantation oligarchs regained control of Southern legislatures and state universities started churning out history books that ignored Black people and poor Whites"
"... the end of Reconstruction represented not simply the unleashing of white supremacy on the South, although that was surely part of it, but also the alliance of white supremacy with property, for as both the most radical and most conservative among nineteenth-century observers noted, the right to hold human property might have been the first to be challenged, but there was no necessary reason that it should be the last."
-- Walter Johnson. The Broken Heart of America (p. 155)
President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the new U.S. special representative for Ukraine's economic recovery, Penny Pritzker, in NYC on Sept. 20. The two officials discussed priority areas in Ukraine's reconstruction, as well as support for "the most promising branches of the Ukrainian economy."
Just received my copy in the mail, and am elated. “Reconstruction Beyond 150” is a labor of love by its two editors Orville Vernon Burton and J. Brent Morris, and had to survive numerous obstacles, not least keeping a scattered crew of contributors on board through a pandemic.
It’s a superb collection of essays, proving that the historiography of #Reconstruction is alive and kicking. I hope these essays inspire new research.
Zelensky met with US special representative to discuss reconstruction (kyivindependent.com)
President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the new U.S. special representative for Ukraine's economic recovery, Penny Pritzker, in NYC on Sept. 20. The two officials discussed priority areas in Ukraine's reconstruction, as well as support for "the most promising branches of the Ukrainian economy."