The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 by Richard White

Dierksheide, Christa

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“…Claims about the teaching of CRT in schools have intensified racial animus and promoted a movement that seeks to foreclose classroom discussion about a defining issue in American history. White's (2017) vivid portrait of America's cultural landscape during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age provides perspective about today's vexing divisions. At the conclusion of the Civil War, many Americans imagined a rebirth of the nation founded on a commitment to "a world of equal opportunity, a uniform set of rights, and a homogeneous citizenship guaranteed by the federal government" (p. 1).…”

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When the Truth Doesn’t Seem to Matter: The Affordances of Disciplinary Argument in the Era of Post-truth

Ferretti

2023

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A disquieting aspect of some contemporary public discourse is its seeming indifference to or abandonment of any pretense to truth. Among other things, unsubstantiated and misleading claims have been made about the efficacy of vaccines and other purported treatments for SARS-COVID, the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and the January 6, 2021, insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. In addition, a spate of legislation restricting classroom discussion and instruction related to race, bias, privilege, and discrimination has been or is pending passage in U.S. state legislatures. These restrictions are antithetical to core functions of education, which are to inculcate the values, virtues, and advanced literacy skills that support democratic deliberation about controversial issues. This article discusses the increasing political polarization and partisan attacks on the processes of education and the threats to liberal democracy posed by this disregard for the truth. In addition, it reviews the cultural and psychological factors that increase our susceptibility to misinformation and presents a perspective about the pursuit of truth that highlights the educational affordances of disciplinary inquiry, democratic deliberation, and reasonable argumentation. The contemporary challenges are manifestations of long-standing political and cultural divisions, and their mitigation will depend on developing communities of informed citizens that are committed to the values and virtues that are foundational to liberal democracy.

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When the Truth Doesn’t Seem to Matter: The Affordances of Disciplinary Argument in the Era of Post-truth

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2023

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“…In response, they began to organize and collect information on violence. The committee, which forbade politicians from joining, was formed to catalog the violence as best they could throughout the South (White 2017). They recorded information on more than 500 violent attacks.…”

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“…On the other hand, violence could be more likely in places where Black people hold positions of influence or, more specifically, in places where they pursue more aggressive tax policies. Unfortunately, a full accounting of racial violence during Reconstruction is not possible, and discerning the intent of specific documented acts of violence is difficult and unresolved among historians (Foner 2014;White 2017). Nevertheless, scholars continue to draw inferences about racial violence and policy during the Reconstruction era, though there have been very few empirical tests of this relationship.…”

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“…Similarly, it is difficult to say that landowners were the primary beneficiaries of the end of Reconstruction. Reconstruction led to new forms of racialization that gave previously stigmatized poor, landless Whites more access to political power and a new range of public goods, which were later segregated by race(Merritt 2017;Foner 2014;White 2017). While the previous political economy was stratified on class grounds due to the racial nature of enslavement, Reconstruction saw a new racial realignment that had material benefits for socioeconomically marginalized White citizens.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050723000050 Published online by Cambridge University Press…”

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“…SeeWhite (2017) for a comprehensive review of the post-Civil War tax revolts and political conflict.5 While the narrative history establishes a strong link between public finance and the provision of services to White and Black citizens, it is not possible to disentangle the provision of public goods to Black people via taxes versus public goods to Whites.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050723000050 Published online by Cambridge University Press…”

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Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence

Logan¹

2023

J. Econ. Hist.

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This paper provides the first evidence of the effect of tax policy on violent attacks against Black politicians. I find a positive effect of local tax revenue on subsequent violence against Black politicians. A dollar increase in per capita county taxes in 1870 increased the likelihood of a violent attack by more than 25 percent. The result is robust to controls for numerous economic, historical, and political factors. I also find counties where Black officeholders were attacked have the largest tax reversions. This provides the first quantitative evidence that Reconstruction political violence was specifically related to Black political efficacy.

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Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Backer

2023

J. gilded age prog. era

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In recent years, the history of sound has developed into a rich body of interdisciplinary scholarship. This article explores the benefits of considering sonic evidence alongside a host of other material; teaching and writing histories with—rather than of—sound. In the classroom, this kind of “history with sound” is particularly useful for its ability to cut across lines of scholarly inquiry. This makes sound an especially potent resource when teaching the history of the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. During these years, American society underwent a many-sided process of development difficult to adequately narrativize. The study of sound, with its ability to link numerous trends and dynamics within densely layered events, can help address this issue. Providing insight into the practices and problems of everyday life, such sonic history can reveal the interplay of change and continuity that defined the social experience of the turn-of-the-century United States. Focused on sound in New York, this article provides an overview of the topic’s historiography before examining a series of distinct case studies for classroom use.

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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 by Richard White

Cited by 5 publications

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When the Truth Doesn’t Seem to Matter: The Affordances of Disciplinary Argument in the Era of Post-truth

When the Truth Doesn’t Seem to Matter: The Affordances of Disciplinary Argument in the Era of Post-truth

Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence

Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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