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After our somewhat disparaging comments about Shelby Foote the other day, I found myself understanding- if not agreeing with- his analysis that the Civil War "measures what we are, good and bad. If you look at American history as the life span of a man, the Civil War represents the great trauma of our adolescence. It's the sort of experience we never forget." So my question is: do you agree, or does such a comparison feel forced?- Drew | After our somewhat disparaging comments about Shelby Foote the other day, I found myself understanding- if not agreeing with- his analysis that the Civil War "measures what we are, good and bad. If you look at American history as the life span of a man, the Civil War represents the great trauma of our adolescence. It's the sort of experience we never forget." So my question is: do you agree, or does such a comparison feel forced?- Drew | ||
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| + | At one point Horwitz is speaking with an elderly black woman that weaves and sells baskets. He asks her if it bothers her that the stand next to her is so outwardly pro-confederacy and she replies that "they can talk about the war all they want as long as they remember they lost". Throughout many of the books we're read and discussions that we've had, the idea of the South having lost the war is somewhat more complicated than it should be. The word "lost" seems to have taken on a different idea to many lost causers. So does the South remember that it lost like this woman states? - Victoria Y. | ||
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| + | What did you all make of the forgotten "skirmish" of the Citadel cadets? The importance that the institution held it at just reminded me of another claim to fame that you see all over the East Coast. Just another "George Washington slept here" kind of thing. - Victoria Y. | ||
