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Here we are, finally at the end, where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in United States history to talk about how powerful contending memories of something that happened in the past can be. Theres simply nothing remotely equal to it i think in the civil war, passions get up quickly when people remember the civil war, and then watching that in charlottesville in the last year and a half in the debates over the equestrian statue of r. E. Lee. Well talk at the end when i get to the war today about some of the resonances of the war in our current american situation and the ways in which the different streams of memory put in places by the wartime generation, either do or do not remain with us now. My real focus today is going to be on how the wartime generation remembered the war. And im going to focus on four great interpretive traditions that came out of the wartime generation, thrived for many decades thereafter, and in differing degrees continue

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