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Topic for discussion: the role of blacks in raising historical awareness. How did people such as Grimké ad Du Bois use memorial and patriotic rhetoric to raise the issue of emancipation memory? Is their own patriotic discourse a distortion of memory?- Aaskins | Topic for discussion: the role of blacks in raising historical awareness. How did people such as Grimké ad Du Bois use memorial and patriotic rhetoric to raise the issue of emancipation memory? Is their own patriotic discourse a distortion of memory?- Aaskins | ||
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| + | Why would President Wilson say "In their presence it were an impertinence to discourse upon how the battle went, how it ended, what it signified!"? Wasn't it the purpose of the reunion to "to talk over the events of the battle here as man to man" as stated by Governor Mann? -- R.King | ||
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| + | In 1896 the GOP platform for the first time since the end of the Civil War omitted any demand that the federal government use it's military power to guarantee black suffrage in the South. (Fahs,Waugh 181) The New York Times approved of this move stating that it indicated McKinley's "sagacity...appealing to a common patriotism to protect the Nation's honor." Were the Jim Crow laws honorable? --R.King | ||
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| + | Earlier in our reading about the Shaw memorial a question was raised about whether the memorial degraded the African/American soldier by moving him to the background, in today's reading we heard from W.E.B DuBois regarding the Shaw memorial, "How extraordinary, and what a tribute to ignorance and religious hypocrisy, is the fact that in the minds of the people...only murder makes men. The slave pleaded; he was humble; he protected the women of the South, and the world ignored him. The slave killed white men; and behold, he was a man!"Does this quote prove that the memorial was in fact a monument to the African/American fighting man? --R.King | ||
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| + | I brought this question up in an earlier wiki post but it seems extremely relevant now, especially regarding Angie's comment about the violence towards African Americans during the 50 years after the Civil War. Do you think that the white supremacy ideology was the basis of the reconciliation of the Union? -MK | ||
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| + | Fahs and Waugh spend a great deal of time talking about the impact and influence veterans had on the election. Why do you think that is not so much the case today? -MK | ||
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| + | How did veteran's groups become so influential in the politics of the late 19th century? Why did people like Dani Sickles and Franz Sigel find success in their campaigns against Bryan? Was it simply their status as generals, or were other factors at play?- DRadtke | ||
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| + | What do the nominations of Bryan and McKinley tell us about the state of the memory of the Civil War in the mid-1890's?- DR | ||
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| + | The Patriotic Heroes' Battalion who were a group of Civil War veterans campaigned heavily for McKinley, and brought with them several important messages relating back to Civil War memory. The most important of the message being 1896 is as vitally important to our country as 1861. What do you think the veterans meant by this statement? Nick | ||
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| + | I totally agree with Angie, Wilsons speech was thoroughly whitewashing the country's attitude towards race relations. Was this just another attempt to "move on" and just reconcile? We discussed in class the issue of moving on and how some feared this was a negative thing, to forget what caused the war. Seems like that is exactly what Wilson wanted. - Victoria Y. | ||
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| + | Blight opens this chapter with the discussion of Saint-Gaudens's Shaw memorial. We've discussed in class how moving this memorial is, but do you think there would have been a different response if it hadn't be revealed when it had (1897)? This was in the middle of the peak of lynching, could that have added significance to it? What if it had been revealed 20 years later, when race relations seems to have been a taboo subject? How did the timing influence the reaction? - Victoria Y. | ||
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| + | In Fahs and Waugh's piece it mentions how Jefferson Davis did not show support for any of the candidates in the 1896 election. What might've happened if he had voiced his opinions about the candidates?- Megan Mc. | ||
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| + | Baker, a postmaster in South Carolina was lynched as the United States neared the Spanish-American War. Due to the fact that he was a federal employee some blacks thought that the national government would pay more attention to it. However, the US was more concerned about the impending war. Do you think that if the country was not so close to war that the US government would have done something about Baker?- Megan MC. | ||
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| + | Black men proved themselves by killing white men. According to Washington's speech, it was white men who led them into battle and white abolitionists who were responsible for their liberation. Why were the contributions of blacks to the war only ever looked at in the context of the whites associated with them? What does this say about the racial attitude of the country at the time?-GStan. | ||
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| + | Kelly’s chapter brings up a point that we have only touched on a little in class. How do current events affect our memory of the Civil War? Did the Great Depression, World War I and II, Cold War, Vietnam and Civil Rights moment affect the memory of Civil War of the people that were living through the events? Does the literature and story telling of the war reflect the events that were going on in the time period they were written in? Are these the most import factors in the memory of the war? Logan T | ||
