Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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And there are later amendments that use negative liberty
as well, but that shift is an important one.
Obviously the political mobilization of the Republican Party has dramatic consequences for the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad, for the Homestead Act, for the land-grant colleges, for all of the huge white settlement of the West in the post-war decades.
So all of those things they're able to accomplish
We tend to focus on the obvious failures, and these are significant and merit attention.
At the same time, though, there are some sort of bona fide, clear lines of productivity and sort of result that come out of this.
Some people talked explicitly about a second Reconstruction, that what's needed now is to, in fact, take those laws, the 1866 Civil Rights Act.
There's another Civil Rights Act passed in the 1870s that became dead letters, thanks to the circumscribed Supreme Court opinions, and to reinterpret those in ways that provided actual protection and actual fair enforcement of the laws without regard to race.
Famously, one of the histories of Reconstruction or of the post-war era, the strange career of Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, that book came out in 1954 by C. Van Woodward.
And Martin Luther King Jr.
at one point held this up and said, this is our historical map here.
This is for the civil rights movement, because one of the things that Woodward does in the book is he says Jim Crow is an invented past.
And it's predicated on this idea that white and black people lived apart, which they never did.
They always lived deeply intertwined lives and that it was created.
And if and if you can create a legal order that's restrictive.
as white Southerners do, you can also create a more expansive legal order.
And this finally only comes in the 1950s and 60s.
But no, there are certainly people at the time that are talking about a second Reconstruction in very explicit terms because the Black historians, people like W.E.B.
Du Bois, Carter Woodson, and others had already mapped out what sort of Reconstruction might have looked like.
those been enforced in the right way.
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