In San Francisco, Virus is Contained but Schools Are Still Closed

[David Lockmiller]

(03-17-2021 05:58 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  I already linked to this article once before here David. Evidently you ignored it. Read it, and you will find that not all agree with you.

https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol13/iss1/6/

Like it or not, I would also place Nikole Hannah-Jones in the category of popular historian and the 1619 Project as popular history. Being flawed doesn't make it useless. Seems to me a man named Carl Sandburg proved that several years ago.

Best
Rob

I followed your hyperlink. The following is from the first paragraph abstract:

"Seeking to balance a sense of justice against the public’s insistence for revenge, Lincoln examined the trial records of each of the defendants, and ultimately approved the death penalty for only those Indians who had participated in massacres rather than battles. Ultimately 38 Indians were hanged in what remains the largest mass execution in American history."

Here is what Professor Michael Burlingame wrote on the Dakota 38 at my request to present to the members of the San Francisco School Board:

After carefully reviewing the army trial records, the president authorized the execution of the thirty-seven Dakotas found guilty of murder and the two convicted of rape, thus sparing the lives of 264 condemned men.

Lincoln explained his reasoning to the U.S. Senate: “Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I ordered a careful examination of the records of the trials to be made, in view of first ordering the execution of such as had been proved guilty of violating females.” In dealing with the murder charges, he had sought to discriminate between those involved in massacres and those participating only in battles.

You may see a big difference, but I don't!

Regarding what Nikole Hannah-Jones has written on the subject of the "Dakota 38," I have no idea. Do you know? I would like to know. She's not stupid; but she is devious.