thaddeus stevens is about to go through this big renaissance. susan: there is now a second president from pennsylvania. joe biden is born in scranton. neil: interesting point. susan: the other group of people that you took photographs and wrote about where the mennonites. for people who are not familiar, what is the mennonite religion? neil: there with these different types of baptists who came to the united states, mainly in the 1700s, from different parts of northern europe, were breakaway sects from mainline protestantism. they had different views about when you should be baptized and went through a lot of grief. the quakers and other founders of pennsylvania were very welcoming to all of these different religious sects. so the amish and the mennonites were the first big settlers of lancaster county. it is an amazing place to this day, when you go there, you are in many ways going back in time. a lot of these people, particularly the amish, stick to their horses. it was a fantastic two days when i walked through because they were plowing the

thaddeus stevens is about to go through this big renaissance. susan: there is now a second president from pennsylvania. joe biden is born in scranton. neil: interesting point. susan: the other group of people that you took photographs and wrote about where the mennonites. for people who are not familiar, what is the mennonite religion? neil: there with these different types of baptists who came to the united states, mainly in the 1700s, from different parts of northern europe, were breakaway sects from mainline protestantism. they had different views about when you should be baptized and went through a lot of grief. the quakers and other founders of pennsylvania were very welcoming to all of these different religious sects. so the amish and the mennonites were the first big settlers of lancaster county. it is an amazing place to this day, when you go there, you are in many ways going back in time. a lot of these people, particularly the amish, stick to their horses. it was a fantastic two days when i walked through because they were plowing the

it caricatures the radicals, especially thaddeus stevens. woodrow wilson, who is progressive mostly in economic policy and maybe to a certain extent in international relations, is really retrogressive, and it comes to race. he institutes segregation in washington, d.c. he fires all black federal government officers pause he doesn't want any black people in the federal government. he establishes the league of nations, of course, or helps establish it, even though it's voted down by the u.s. congress. but you know, he has this idea of national self-determination for everyone. and the moment people said, well, does this apply to asia and africa? he's like, of course not, i meant only for europeans. when it comes to race, he's extremely, extremely retrogressive. but that is how pernicious the dunning school was. it was in the white house. it was in hollywood. it was everywhere. that was the picture of reconstruction. that was dominant. and there's one dissenting voice here, and that is the famous black intellectual historian, activist, one of th

thaddeus stevens paul sumpter but they would say political rights does not mean you have to let the black person marry your daughter. we are talking about that. we are talking about social equality but they came to understand and people think of 14th and the 15th amendment says or most of us do anyway as these great accomplishments but they were post-partisan. the republican party had ideological interests in defending the black vote. the republican party was not viable in the south without the black vote. and the democratic party is in a similar position today to the extent that this is one of the reasons why there partisan voting protections is sort of ridiculous because that's how we got the 14th and 15th amendment and if you were willing to give veto power to accord that is willing to write the 15th amendment out of existence when it comes to the rights of black voters and the party that simply sees its interests continuing to restrict the elect are at so that it does not have to be responsive to a more diverse group of voters you know at some point you have to decide, you have to dec

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