{"id":8122,"date":"2021-02-24T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2021-07-08T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T08:18:03","slug":"the-american-civil-war-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8122","title":{"rendered":"The American Civil War &#038; Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center is-image-fill has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(238,238,238) 40%,rgb(169,184,195) 100%);grid-template-columns:59% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Battle_of_Antietam.png);background-position:50% 50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=564\/#civil-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Battle_of_Antietam.png\" alt=\"The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz &amp; Allison (1878), depicting the scene of action at Burnside's Bridge\" class=\"wp-image-8135 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Battle_of_Antietam.png 800w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Battle_of_Antietam-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Battle_of_Antietam-768x536.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last year or so I have been diligently, albeit intermittently, following through with a series of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/xseries\/civil-war-reconstruction\" target=\"_blank\">edX courses on the American Civil War<\/a> and the years of Reconstruction in its aftermath; the consequences of which resound to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Delivered by Columbia University and Prof. Eric Foner; a lengthy but incredibly enlightening intellectual pursuit that I can highly recommended to anyone interested in this defining period of US history &#8211; I only realise now how very much that is so (not to mention how ignorant I was!).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Battle of Antietam<\/em> 1862, by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurz_%26_Allison\">Kurz &amp; Allison<\/a>&nbsp;(1878)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>My course notes are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=564\/#civil-war\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> on the <\/em>Downloads<em> page (and also accessible from the main menu<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year or so I have been diligently, albeit intermittently, following through with a series of edX courses on the American Civil War and the years of Reconstruction in its aftermath; the consequences of which resound to this day. Delivered by Columbia University and Prof. Eric Foner; a lengthy but incredibly enlightening intellectual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The American Civil War &#038; Reconstruction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[171,170],"tags":[199,201,202,200],"class_list":["post-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-history","tag-civil-war","tag-edx","tag-eric-foner","tag-reconstruction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8893,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}