HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dunning School, Reconstruction Era, Reconstruction Amendments
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The three schools of reconstruction historiography: 1900-1960 dunning school. Argued that president johnson tried to carry out a magnanimous policy of reconstruction until vindictive, hateful, and unprincipled radical republicans intervened, and gave unprepared blacks voting power, which created a big mess of huge state debt. Thankfully, the redeemers took over and restored order but the whole experience created a legacy of racial bitterness: 1960-1980s revisionist school. Argued that the northern radicals were not the bad guys, they were the good guys. Southern redeemers were the problem and johnson was inept. Freedpeople did not make such a mess of state government as the. Reconstruction is not that it happened, but that it did not go far enough: 1988-today fonder school. Argued that the northerners were not the angels the revisionists made them out to be, but southerners were not great either. There was racism both sides, which was the underlying cause of the failure of.
