Worth Bagley & Civil War Reconciliation

Lectures in History

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History, Politics, News

4.1 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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N.C. State professor Chris Laws taught a class about North Carolina native Worth Bagley, who was the first U.S. soldier to die during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Bagley was celebrated as a national hero and his death was seen as a key moment in reconciliation in the decades after the Civil War. North Carolina State University is located in Raleigh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Spanish-American War claimed the lives of 3,000 Americans, but only a small fraction of those soldiers died in combat.
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0:16.2	I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week on the Lectures and History Podcast,
0:20.2	North Carolina State Professor Chris Laws teaches a class about North Carolina native,
0:24.9	Worth Bagley, who was the first U.S. soldier to die during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
0:30.6	Stay tuned. Class starts right after this.
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1:35.1	All right, well, welcome to another edition of North Carolina history.
1:38.9	So this lecture today actually pairs well with what we're studying right now in the class.
1:43.4	The turn of the 20th century in North Carolina, the tumultuous 1890s, but I'm sure you've heard me call every time period in North Carolina history tumultuous, but this is no exception. So today's lecture is called Worth Bagley, the Southern Savior, Confederate Christ, Masculum Messiah.
2:02.3	And we're actually going to dive into more of the topic of memory making.
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