complicated topic, but i want you i want us to kind of go through. the end of the war itself and how the memory began to take shape. what we re going to see is that the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that will be discussing next week and we rewriting your papers on it s a word that came from a book. so, you know it s today. used widely but
we are going to jump a little bit ahead today from reconstruction and get into the memory of the war. it s a very relevant topic and a complicated topic, but i want you i want us to kind of go through. the end of the war itself and how the memory began to take shape. what we re going to see is that the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that wi
we are going to jump a little bit ahead today from reconstruction and get into the memory of the war. it s a very relevant topic and a complicated topic, but i want you i want us to kind of go through. the end of the war itself and how the memory began to take shape. what we re going to see is that the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that wi
even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that will be discussing next week and we rewriting your papers on it s a word that came from a book. so, you know it s today. used widely but the man who s credited with coining it was a journalist a virginian, edward pollard. edited the richmond examiner during the civil war. he was a native virginian. and very in the post-war period and looking back at the end of the war. he saw himself as sort of self self-style himself as the first historian of the confederacy. he wanted to write wh
the people involved in writing the history of the civil war initially were the people that experienced it and they had their own views and beliefs and that had heavily left an imprint even on our current memory of the war. so i ve got a quote from woodrow wilson who s president in 1913 talking about just how healing right the post period after the civil war had been essentially saying everybody was united that s 1913. that s 50 years after the end of the civil war. so like i said, i want to step back and see how we ended up there with wilson saying such a thing. the lost cause is a term. i know you all have heard and we ve talked about and karen cox talks about in her book, that will be discussing next week and we rewriting your papers on it s a word that came from a book. so, you know it s today. used widely but the man who s credited with coining it was a journalist a virginian, edward pollard. edited the richmond examiner during the civil war. he was a native virginian. an