welcome kate masur. she is a professor from the university at evanston, illinois. we followed your panel discussion just a moment ago. what was your take away from what you turn with former governor habit and the others? dr. masur: it was such a pleasure to be together with a group of people. tt.governor babbi one of the things that was a take away from me and my involvement with the project, is how many people were involved. involved. you hear the discussion that this had to happen on the ground and there was this opportunity transfer and historians were aing this, it was remarkably collective effort that is different from what history professors often do, which is teacher class, write an article. that stood out. what is your background and history? -- host: what is your background i id history? >> -- dr. masur: began in the american studies field. i had a historian buried inside of me. i want to know why we are the way we are now and we came to the understanding that we know something about history. a very curious about the past. i feel like there are a lot of pu

our guest is kate masur. reginald is joining us next from california. go ahead, please. caller: you were talking about looking at reconstruction from other regions of the country to make it more inclusive and perhaps more relevant to people as far away as california. how would you go about doing that? dr. masur: right. so it's a little complicated in the sense that the story of reconstruction, which we normally talk about, which has to do with bringing the former confederate states back into the addressing thend abolition of slavery, that is does not get addressed as much in other states like california or minnesota. conversatione same happening in the south. including california, there was a really big debate about race and racial equality in those places, even during reconstruction, even though it was not exactly the same concept happening in the south. so there is a possibility of talking about new ideas of race and then there are a lot of other things going on about westward expansion. buffalo soldiers, african-american soldiers who fought out west -- there are a lot

we want to welcome kate masur. professor from the university at evanston, illinois. we just saw your panel. dr. masur: it was such a pleasure to be together with a group of people. one of the takeaways for me and my involvement with the project is how many people were involved. you hear the discussion that this had to happen on the ground and there was this opportunity transfer and historians were aing this, it was remarkably collective effort that is different from what history professors often do, which is teacher class, write an article. that stood out. what is your background and history? -- host: what is your background i id history? >> -- dr. masur: began in the american studies field. i had a historian buried inside of me. i want to know why we are the way we are now and we came to the understanding that we know something about history. a very curious about the past. i feel like there are a lot of puzzles to put together. i think in the end what you are often learning about is why we get here. reconstruction, what do we need to know about? is very misunderstood

welcome kate masur. she is a professor from the university at evanston, illinois. we followed your panel discussion just a moment ago. what was your take away from what you turn with former governor habit and the others? dr. masur: it was such a pleasure to be together with a group of people. -- governor babbi

kate we followed your panel discussion a moment ago. what was your take away with what you learned? dr. masur: it was such a pleasure to be together with a group of people.