Radical Republicans

The Radical Republicans were the most important group of political figures from the 1850s through the 1870s. Their views on slavery, the War, the sectional conflict, and Reconstruction have become the standard establishment views of the period. Both "conservative" and progressive historians regurgitate their positions as accepted "facts" of the sectional conflict, War, and Reconstruction. This makes understanding what they said a vital part of not only American history but modern American politics. This course provides a deeper understanding of the Radical Republicans and their impact on the United States.


Your Instructor


Brion
Brion

Brion McClanahan holds a Ph.D in American History from the University of South Carolina. He is the author or co-author of six books, including the #1 Amazon best selling 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America.


Course Curriculum


  Introduction
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  Charles Sumner: The Crimes Against Kansas, May 19 and 20, 1856
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  Lot Morrill: Speech on the Confiscation of Propeerty, March 5, 1862
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  Benjamin Wade: Traitors and Their Sympathizers, April 21, 1862
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  John Bingham: Shall the Government Surrender to the Rebellion?, January 14, 1863
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  Henry Winter Davis: Speech at Philadelphia, September 24, 1863
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  Thaddeus Stevens: The Rebellious States, May 2, 1864
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  Thaddeus Stevens: Reconstruction, September 7, 1865
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  John Bingham: One Country, One Constitution, and One People. February 28, 1866
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