Love the series, reminds me of the Bicentennial minutes in 1776 when I was a high school senior. One comment, please ask HR to redo the text about the Zenger trial and freedom of the press, narrated by Jelani Cobb. It's incorrect in two ways: the "Framers of the Constitution" did not write what became the First Amendment; in fact they voted unanimously by state delegations to defeat the Mason-Gerry resolution to add one at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Due to insistence by Antifederalists during state ratification conventions, the First Congress in 1789 passed what became known as the Bill of Rights, and that document had two other amendments listed before what we now know as the First Amendment. Those first two failed ratification in 1791, but one of them is now the 27th Amendment. Facts matter, now more than ever. One can say that the First Amendment is important, is now listed first in the Bill of Rights, but not that the "Framers" wrote it or that they placed it first among the others. The people did, on both accounts.
The differences between "cajun" & "creole" have always confused me (and not a few other folks, I'll bet). I've done some limited research on those distinctions and come up with a lot of contrasts & contradictions - cajuns are white, creoles are not; creoles are from New Orleans, cajuns are from the bayous - but I would really love to hear what folks who are nominally *in* those groups have to say ... and of course it would be a big plus to hear from an actual historian!
I read Hodson's The Acadian Diaspora a few years ago after you recommended it, and really enjoyed it. Neat to see this snippet now!
Love the series, reminds me of the Bicentennial minutes in 1776 when I was a high school senior. One comment, please ask HR to redo the text about the Zenger trial and freedom of the press, narrated by Jelani Cobb. It's incorrect in two ways: the "Framers of the Constitution" did not write what became the First Amendment; in fact they voted unanimously by state delegations to defeat the Mason-Gerry resolution to add one at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Due to insistence by Antifederalists during state ratification conventions, the First Congress in 1789 passed what became known as the Bill of Rights, and that document had two other amendments listed before what we now know as the First Amendment. Those first two failed ratification in 1791, but one of them is now the 27th Amendment. Facts matter, now more than ever. One can say that the First Amendment is important, is now listed first in the Bill of Rights, but not that the "Framers" wrote it or that they placed it first among the others. The people did, on both accounts.
The differences between "cajun" & "creole" have always confused me (and not a few other folks, I'll bet). I've done some limited research on those distinctions and come up with a lot of contrasts & contradictions - cajuns are white, creoles are not; creoles are from New Orleans, cajuns are from the bayous - but I would really love to hear what folks who are nominally *in* those groups have to say ... and of course it would be a big plus to hear from an actual historian!