That was a fantastic look into history. I'd never even realized that the Reconstruction Era National Park even existed. Thank you for giving us all a lesson on our nation's history. ❤

No two finer historians could not have been found in the same room. Rich your on point to discover so much we didn't know and rewrite history as you discover. Jared, what hasnt been said of your knowledge and presentatuon. This presentation could have have been longer. Hazzahs to you both!

Interesting to see that Robert Smalls is due to appear in a film in the near future as he was a fascinating character

This was fascinating, Jared! I so appreciate your contributions in rounding out our historical knowledge. I haven't been to Beaufort in years, but remember it as beautiful. Looks like a second trip is warranted. I love our NHPs!

It's unfortunate how badly Reconstruction went and how it was abandoned because of stigma.

@ReelHistory

2 жыл бұрын

The great tragedy of Reconstruction is that it lasted so short a time.

@TheNextFreud

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelHistory or that it was Andrew Johnson that who kicked it off instead of Lincoln

Heh…ironically the first condo my father owned (born and raised on Hilton Head) was right next to ft. Mitchell. We just grew up with the cannons kinda chilling. My grandfather could speak Gullah (weird for a white guy) and I can understand it. I guess as a local I don’t even notice it was a big deal until I realized the first freeman’s town in the confederacy was on Hilton Head.

Interesting video, I didn't know 'Reconstruction Era' was a thing. I think you got me on the pronunciation... again! I didn't get that it was "Beaufort" because it sounded like "Buford". In England, that's pronounced "Bow_furt" or "Bow_fort". There's a Buford in Lancaster County SC, in the north of the state near Charlotte NC, so I was searching Google maps in totally the wrong place. Beaufort I thought was an English place name, but it's a village in the Ebbw Vale area of South Wales (... not far from Gloucester ;-).

@SemperFiGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Home of none other than Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island🦅🌎⚓You simply cannot shake those Marines😉🇺🇸

@davemac1197

2 жыл бұрын

@@SemperFiGuy - Semper Fi!

A movie about Smalls. Great! Finally something I want to see.

Got a covid booster yesterday and enjoying the day pretending i feel fluey. Maybe I do maybe I don't. Either way, a new Prof. Jared talk is just what I needed to take the edge off. What a great day to be a boomer! And a Fudd.

@dbach1025

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Lol. Wife asked .e when I got up how I felt. I told her I think I'm not feeling great. Lol Look forward to these every Saturday....videos. Not boosters.

Nice. I recently moved very close to Beaufort. I will definitely check this out. Thanks

Historiography matters. Events are recorded from a perspective that is always tainted by the culture and time in which they are noted. It's unavoidable, but must be controlled for when studying events, especially from secondary sources. What I read Millennials write about life in the 80s bears little resemblance to the decade I experienced.

It's still felt today: my first boss in 1994 had grown up as a sharecropper. Our cotton mill had been the only source of real revenue in our town as recent as the 1970's, right before it shut down. War and nearby bases have helped (families sending money back). Georgia's current economic situation probably still has some very blaring issues that are ongoing because of Reconstruction; least of all the racial "this or that" that news channels love these days..

@kkpenney444

2 жыл бұрын

You realize that a lot of that pesky "racial 'this or that'" that you want to blame on news channels can actually be traced to how states like yours responded to Reconstruction, right?

@tolvaer

2 жыл бұрын

​@@kkpenney444 History is made up of a constant quid pro quo; just that there's a breadcrumb trail for both sides, as well as the biases that pre-date mass awareness that overlaps into modern convention. There's always a buildup to the reasons why anybody becomes confrontational. I think that President Grant and President Hayes (they both served in the Army, capably) , honestly tried their best. Win or lose you have to finish a fight or give up. There was a lot of magnanimity given at Appomattox Courthouse, but Northerners aren't called "snake oil salesman", or "bluebellies", for nothing. There's a reason why "carpetbagger" is a far more deadly insult to me than any racial slur that I can think of to give another human being.From the North's view, placing the majority of all modern military facilities in the old confederate states just makes sense today. Not that different in strategy- the projection of power that is underscored by the Machivellian "means to an end", like the Native American Trail of Tears, or Japanese Internment camps, because of the end goal: stable security. It's only been 160 years or so, and it was Stonewall Jackson's unit that were the first one's on Normandy Beach for D-Day, so there's that.

@kkpenney444

2 жыл бұрын

@@tolvaer Quid pro quo, huh? When have you ever quidded?

@tolvaer

2 жыл бұрын

​@@kkpenney444 I believe that you're intelligent enough to not just take my word for it, if I said that I was a humble, yet paragon of selfless virtue. For my defense, I would say that I have more appreciation for where I was born than any of the other places that I've been. Thanks for keeping this civil; fair winds and following seas, Miss Jane.

I would like to hear Victor Davis Hanson opinions in reference to subject and material.

Wanted to suggest a few lesser known films, I believe all by HBO studios, Conspiracy from 2001 with Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, about the Wannsee Conference. The Tuskegee Airmen with Laurence Fishburn, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Courtney B. Vance, which you could contrast with the film Red Tails; and lastly And The Band Played On, which has an absolutely packed cast of stars and well known character actors, about the early days of the immergence of the Aids virus.

@ReelHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, Jared owns all of these!

@po5283

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelHistory Would love to see you guys cover one or more of them down the road, in particular, And the Band Played On for several reasons. One for being unique, as far as I know, in it's chronicling of the progression of the Aids epidemic, also it's historical significance along with the film Philadelphia and the songs by Elton John and Bruce Springsteen associated with the movies, for pushing the subject into the social consciousness and humanizing those who were effected. And lastly to delve into and clear up some of the controversies surrounding Dr. Gallo.

Yinz!

@SemperFiGuy

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Reconstruction is a very one sided story because a certain party rewrote history to sell that they were the victims. There were a few Northerners who took out anger on Southern plantation owners and other people of the South. Most were really not concerned with that. They were concerned with helping the ex-slaves. They wanted to see them acknowledged as people, to have their rights and education. They wanted the ex-slaves to have a political voice so they could participate in the direction of our country. Many Southerners reacted badly and tried to stop progress for the ex-slaves by proclaiming them and their 'Northern Enablers' as the true villains. The supposed 'carpetbaggers' and ex-slaves weren't the bad guys. Problem in history is that for too long the narrative that ex-slaves and carpetbaggers were the villains persisted. I was aware that Beaufort SC was a location where abolitionists had started working with ex-slaves, but had not considered that was the founding of reconstruction. That is an interesting fact to know. Checked on Robert Smalls and there is a movie listed as 'in pre-production' named "The Story of Robert Smalls." Not much detail, but I hope this is a well done bio-pic because he is a worthy subject.

@BHuang92

2 жыл бұрын

It was a good idea. It was unfortunate that people in charge screwed it up and set back everyone by a century!

@ChuckJansenII

2 жыл бұрын

@@BHuang92 What would Reconstruction have looked like if Lincoln was not assassinated? John Wilkes Booth is one of the most terrible villains in our history.

@ReelHistory

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChuckJansenII, it is one of the great questions about history. I think the same of JFK and RFK.

@ChuckJansenII

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelHistory I think the assassinations that did the most damage to American history were Lincoln and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

@chardaskie

2 жыл бұрын

@@ReelHistory My grandmother says JFK was the only president she ever truly loved and when he died she says a piece of America died with him (she is 96 so she has seen Coolidge to Biden)

Primanti bros is the best

@ReelHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I knew somebody would get it!