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the fact that thaddeus stevens had a clubfoot. some people explain in s whole personality and the things that he did because, he resented having ts clubfoot. you know, he was lucky his brother was born with two club fe. and i found i information that suggested that in his prime when stephen's younger he was very athletic and he's a good loong guy. so he's gotten bad rap by many people. more about lydia she conducted his home quietly and efficiently an supervised the other servants. so she was a servant. she wasn't anythi else. i'll get back to that when. he did entertain. she serv the food, freshments personally. well, really put herself out for the old thaddeus tddeus. where am i? here am i? am i one? one behind? yes. here we go. others the lancaster new era. after she died in her obituary, speaking to her generous addie and her other abilities. she was a magnificent caterer as the managing head of stephens households also came in contact with the great men of this country of whom she conversed intelligently and entertainingly. s
the fact that thaddeus stevens had a clubfoot. some people explain in s whole personality and the things that he did because, he resented having ts clubfoot. you know, he was lucky his brother was born with two club fe. and i found i information that suggested that in his prime when stephen's younger he was very athletic and he's a good loong guy. so he's gotten bad rap by many people. more about lydia she conducted his home quietly and efficiently an supervised the other servants. so she was a...
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and thaddeus stevens meet? how did they meet? briefly. okay, i. i think, you know, i think her mother worked for him in gettysburg as a housekeeper i know she had access to his house. i can't imagine how that would have happened otherwise excuse. so i think he saw her there and i from early on, she was a good looking and and stevens had an eye for a good looking ladies. a couple of times lydia tells people, i mr. stevens about that you were there and he said, oh, that kasia. she's the she's one of the prettiest girls i've ever seen. so i think they met. i in gettysburg, and i think they may have stayed in touch in harrisburg and then she came to lancaster. oh, you've got a question from zoom. and the question is. just so everybody can hear. so we have a question from zoom tonight. did stevens customarily introduce people by their first names or mr. mrs. ms. without regard to their race? so did he do that generally for everyone regardless of their race. i'm not the expert on that. i. but i think the fact that he did it with regard to a woman of is
and thaddeus stevens meet? how did they meet? briefly. okay, i. i think, you know, i think her mother worked for him in gettysburg as a housekeeper i know she had access to his house. i can't imagine how that would have happened otherwise excuse. so i think he saw her there and i from early on, she was a good looking and and stevens had an eye for a good looking ladies. a couple of times lydia tells people, i mr. stevens about that you were there and he said, oh, that kasia. she's the she's one...
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and thaddeus stevens meet? how did they meet? briefly. okay, i. i think, you know, i think her mother worked for him in gettysburg as a housekeeper i know she had access to his house. i can't imagine how that would have happened otherwise excuse. so i think he saw her there and i from early on, she was a good looking and and stevens had an eye for a good looking ladies. a couple of times lydia tells people, i mr. stevens about that you were there and he said, oh, that kasia. she's the she's one of the prettiest girls i've ever seen. so i think they met. i in gettysburg, and i think they may have stayed in touch in harrisburg and then she came to lancaster. oh, you've got a question from zoom. and the question is. just so everybody can hear. so we have a question from zoom tonight. did stevens customarily introduce people by their first names or mr. mrs. ms. without regard to their race? so did he do that generally for everyone regardless of their race. i'm not the expert on that. i. but i think the fact that he did it with regard to a woman of is
and thaddeus stevens meet? how did they meet? briefly. okay, i. i think, you know, i think her mother worked for him in gettysburg as a housekeeper i know she had access to his house. i can't imagine how that would have happened otherwise excuse. so i think he saw her there and i from early on, she was a good looking and and stevens had an eye for a good looking ladies. a couple of times lydia tells people, i mr. stevens about that you were there and he said, oh, that kasia. she's the she's one...
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thaddeus stevens is very clear that. it is not smart to quickly forgive and re-empower confed traitors, but lincoln even, before he dies, if i'm not mistaken, is preparing to forgive confederate traitors. so what i want to understand is it's not simply lincoln's successor who's to forgive confederate traitors? so how should we be thinking right now as we watch the supreme court basically act as if an insurrection is a non-issue that's a very good question from professor, who is, of course, be modest by saying she's just a scholar because her works are historically informed and i have found them extremely useful as i have read them. you know, with lincoln, that is the claim that has often that there is something called press redemption, reconstruction versus congressional reconstruction, that was simply following lincoln's policy of forgiving this. you know, everyone remembers, you know, with charity towards all and all that and i argue a bit differently. this book because lincoln as a reconstruction president was a warti
thaddeus stevens is very clear that. it is not smart to quickly forgive and re-empower confed traitors, but lincoln even, before he dies, if i'm not mistaken, is preparing to forgive confederate traitors. so what i want to understand is it's not simply lincoln's successor who's to forgive confederate traitors? so how should we be thinking right now as we watch the supreme court basically act as if an insurrection is a non-issue that's a very good question from professor, who is, of course, be...
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thaddeus stevens dies when when grant is elected. charles sumner, the two stalwarts, if you will. charles sumner is is is failing in health and will ultimately die in 1875. and so the people that would have pushed him in many ways are fading away from. that republican ticket and the republican party, as i said, is also changing. so while he is supportive of and appalled by much of what he's doing the political will is not necessarily there to force him to to make the action that maybe we or people looking back would have liked him to do. or maybe that was thought would have happened in the initial beginning of the hearings. professor alexander, how far was reconstruction in 1871? what was going on in reconstruction is fairly, fairly far along. by that time, reconstruction can we can see it beginning it during the war something that a lot of people don't always recognized it happens lincoln begins to reconstruct, if you will. parts of the former confederacy that the union has taken, really taking control of as early as the 18 1863, in certain areas. then, of course, at the as the w
thaddeus stevens dies when when grant is elected. charles sumner, the two stalwarts, if you will. charles sumner is is is failing in health and will ultimately die in 1875. and so the people that would have pushed him in many ways are fading away from. that republican ticket and the republican party, as i said, is also changing. so while he is supportive of and appalled by much of what he's doing the political will is not necessarily there to force him to to make the action that maybe we or...
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thaddeus stevens dies when when grant is elected. charles sumner, the two stalwarts, if you will. charles sumner is is is failing in health and will ultimately die in 1875. and so the people that would have pushed him in many ways are fading away from. that republican ticket and the republican party, as i said, is also changing. so while he is supportive of and appalled by much of what he's doing the political will is not necessarily there to force him to to make the action that maybe we or people looking back would have liked him to do. or maybe that was thought would have happened in the initial beginning of the hearings. professor alexander, how far was reconstruction in 1871? what was going on in reconstruction is fairly, fairly far along. by that time, reconstruction can we can see it beginning it during the war something that a lot of people don't always recognized it happens lincoln begins to reconstruct, if you will. parts of the former confederacy that the union has taken, really taking control of as early as the 18 1863, in certain areas. then, of course, at the as the w
thaddeus stevens dies when when grant is elected. charles sumner, the two stalwarts, if you will. charles sumner is is is failing in health and will ultimately die in 1875. and so the people that would have pushed him in many ways are fading away from. that republican ticket and the republican party, as i said, is also changing. so while he is supportive of and appalled by much of what he's doing the political will is not necessarily there to force him to to make the action that maybe we or...
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and then there were the look the other way progressives thaddeus stevens salmond, pete chase. good on a.c., bad on catholic immigration. lincoln himself would from inconsistent nancy all the way to fostering truly revolution era change in military and civilian life, acting in transformative ways. and we'll get to that in a few minutes. not that lincoln solved all the problems about refugees and migrants for all time. that's obvious. as we know he did. however, point in the direction of expanding the definite vision of what it meant to be american. but i don't want to get ahead of the story. i was astonished, i guess, when i started for this book, to be reminded that the constant tution did not give. the federal government, the power to regulate immigration only, to regulate naturalization. so the the power to police new arrivals rested with the states and localities and the result not until the supreme court reinterpreted the issue of foreign oversight that much later was open borders, though some localities did turn away arrivals that they described as indigent or idiots. som
and then there were the look the other way progressives thaddeus stevens salmond, pete chase. good on a.c., bad on catholic immigration. lincoln himself would from inconsistent nancy all the way to fostering truly revolution era change in military and civilian life, acting in transformative ways. and we'll get to that in a few minutes. not that lincoln solved all the problems about refugees and migrants for all time. that's obvious. as we know he did. however, point in the direction of...
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stevens or frederick douglass were employed was longstreet's view was that african-americans should play a role in politics as constituencies voters and in some secondary leadership positions, suborn it to the right whites peaceable, progressive whites like himself as he as he saw it, he was not for full power or sharing in any in any or or of the full, full complement of political rights and opportunities for african-americans. but even this limb added challenge to this to, the old racial caste system, was enough to make him a pariah because the southern democrats wanted was no participation by african-americans in southern politics whatsoever and no participation by the republican party. so even his limited challenge comes up against this very hard barrier of of of of of entire is. and one thing that i learned from this book is, the the power at that time of being a us marshal. yeah and this comes this was reminded about this because you mentioned the 1883 1884 case, the yarborough case, which was eventually decided by the supreme and the supreme says that, yes, indeed, the u.s. g
stevens or frederick douglass were employed was longstreet's view was that african-americans should play a role in politics as constituencies voters and in some secondary leadership positions, suborn it to the right whites peaceable, progressive whites like himself as he as he saw it, he was not for full power or sharing in any in any or or of the full, full complement of political rights and opportunities for african-americans. but even this limb added challenge to this to, the old racial...