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Do you agree with the statement in the Thelen article on page 1120 that “remembering appears to be far more decisively an affair of construction rather than one of mere reproduction”? Could it be possible to ever have a truly objective view on something such as the American Civil War? Also, did anyone expect the Thelen article to lapse into biology there in the middle? --Cash Nelson | Do you agree with the statement in the Thelen article on page 1120 that “remembering appears to be far more decisively an affair of construction rather than one of mere reproduction”? Could it be possible to ever have a truly objective view on something such as the American Civil War? Also, did anyone expect the Thelen article to lapse into biology there in the middle? --Cash Nelson | ||
| − | Is David Thelen saying that a historian should write several | + | Is David Thelen saying that a historian should write several versions of his history, one for each audience he hopes to address? --Bob King |
== Thomas Brown, ''The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration'', 1-14 == | == Thomas Brown, ''The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration'', 1-14 == | ||
