Or does affect someone. What we thought we knew or understood 80 years ago, or even 30 years ago was sometimes now no longer believed, or we understand differently. The symbols that we once embraced as a nation are now seen by some as offensive. The conventional wisdom that often undergirds our understanding of our past is often so simple as to be wrong or at least incomplete or debatable. So we challenge, we debate, and that really ticks people off. Which brings me of course to the civil war. In its place the legacy in american culture. I would offer it as a more complicated place. There is no event in our history we argue about more than the civil war. From its cause to its purpose to the details of 100 battles, we argue. We cant even agree on its name. Rephrase variously depending on the perspective of the namer, the war of northern aggression, the war between the states, the war of the rebellion which was once the official u. S. Government name for a good the war for independence,
Civil war. From its cause to its purpose to the details of 100 battles, we argue. We cant even agree on its name. To rephrase variously depending on the perspective of the namer, the war of northern aggression the war between the states, the war of the rebellion which was once the official u. S. Government name for it the war for independence, the second american revolution, the war for emancipation, and probably two or three dozen more. In no other time do we have a historical memory so carefully considered, so consciously shaped and manipulated as a civil war. No other event in our lifetime has active constituent groups that patrol the intellectual universe trying to ensure that americans see this event in a particular way or from a particular perspective. Today, i would like to engage in a bit of a discussion, engage you in a bit of a discussion posing you some questions, answer a few, but i have no idea what the answers are. All of it is to provoke some thought and some considerati
Mindset. What is the future of the south going to be . How long are there going to be Union Soldiers running towns and cities . Is there going to be widespread abuse . What is going to happen . That kind of fear and anxiety coupled with the economic factor , those elements worked in tandem to draw people to brazil. My name is dennis. Can you describe higher profile can veterans that went down south or were these ordinary folks . Professor clabough again, going back to i brought up lee and his disdain for people leaving the south. Some of that stature had alternatives after the war. There were things he could do because of his rank and fame and standing. So it was more, i would say Junior Officers and below. I mentioned the colonel William Norris settlement. I would say from that military rank and below were predominately the people who left. Again, going back to dr. Colts question about why the motivated to go, there had to be an economic need and also possibly a political drive as wel
Those who acknowledge complexities rather than simplicities . Or worse, deny the simplicities altogether . What happens to them . They are invariably assaulted in some way not physically, of course they are labeled unpatriotic. They are labeled unproductive divisive revisionist politically correct. Those of the words that we use as when somebody violates one of our cherished simplicities. We often react to that as a body does to an infection. We try to contain it and stamp it out, as your bodies does, and render it in her there is a great irony in that. It is our commitment to conventional wisdom and the simplicities of that all those things entail is that commitment to simplicity that invites contention. It backs argument. So it is our commitment to simplicity that provokes people to argue the complexity of these events. And so our history does not sit on like that platforms in museums. It is not embodied by statues in our parks or monuments on our battlefields. Instead, history rides
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