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Thelen mentions that "The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present." However, Fahs and Waugh say that the "Civil War has never receded into the remote past." Does this make it easier or more difficult to study/research how the Civil War was seen in the past versus how we’re remembering it at 150 years later? And (how) does it differ from the researching of events that have been mostly ignored for years? –Megan Mc. | Thelen mentions that "The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present." However, Fahs and Waugh say that the "Civil War has never receded into the remote past." Does this make it easier or more difficult to study/research how the Civil War was seen in the past versus how we’re remembering it at 150 years later? And (how) does it differ from the researching of events that have been mostly ignored for years? –Megan Mc. | ||
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| + | Are the future commemoration ceremonies of the Civil War’s 150th anniversary going to change our memory of the war by opening up new debates about how the war should be remembered? Logan T | ||
