i fully believe that when we re talking even across the spectrum from the coming of the civil war to the prosecution of it and the aftermath, i think it s a much more productive approach to describe and understand white supremacy than it is to even talk about slavery. slavery doesn t survive. but white supremacy does. the war ends. reconciliation has been achieved. what happens unexpectedly is that in that reconciliation the nation itself embraces the confederacy. and the memory of the confederacy. this is why by the time you get to the 1930s, people from all over the country are coming to places like natchez, mississippi to tour antebellum homes and to see women in hoop skirts and people dressed up as enslaved persons.
our computers and on our phones and on television, you can t divorce this from the need to return to some sort of innocent past. like the old south? yes. what is the old south? after the civil war, the old south myth is this mythologized place of big plantation houses with corinthian columns and mint juleps and hoop skirts and southern gentlemen and happy slaves. everyone is well taken care of. some people are owned by other people, but everyone is well fed, well clothed, loved and appreciated. and that is not this is why something like this would appeal to white northerners, because that s not the environment that they lived in. it s really a story about the merits of white supremacy. you know, i filmed with another historian who said it was really white supremacy that helped the north and the south reunify after the war. do you think that s true?
women were attracted to him. men want to be like that, they want to be strong. i love jack pallance. laura: it s so great i know what it takes to be a man. love that. laura: so advertisers trying to feminize men right, while women are going in a different direction. last week tem nifrts launched this campaign to raise awareness about the oppressiveness of traditional norms. they encouraged women to grow out their body hair throughout the month of januharry. women have taken to in at that graham. lord help me. laura: wait a second she has really harry legs. this is why petty coats and long skirts laura: bringing back the hoop skirts are we arroyo? this is nasty, i m sorry. i guess the idea is to make women as unappealing to men and vice versa. that s what the dynamic is here. why would you do this to yourself? laura: i remember in college, it was a big deal when you
around town commemorate famous historical figures who also wore simple sandals. for example the statesman para cli s near earth in the city hall. and his fellow philosopher socrates in front of the academy of athens. two simple. which were later adopted by the romans. in the fifteen found sixteenth century open toed shoes called buskins were all the rage women wore these shoes which featured high corks under the hoop skirts to make them look taller. pantelis many seem continues to find inspiration in the historical figures who wore greek samples. always carried a sketch pad with him to draw pictures of a foot well on statues.