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Did the Civil War bring the US economy into the industrial age or did the war slow down economic growth and development? This question has proven to be quite controversial over the last 150 years, and historians like other Civil War topics have not comer to a consensus about this question. Overall what was the Civil Wars' impact on the US economy?- Nick J. | Did the Civil War bring the US economy into the industrial age or did the war slow down economic growth and development? This question has proven to be quite controversial over the last 150 years, and historians like other Civil War topics have not comer to a consensus about this question. Overall what was the Civil Wars' impact on the US economy?- Nick J. | ||
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| + | Faust states that "nearly a century has failed to resolve debate about the war's impact on women, but the centrality of this question to the concerns of contemporary feminism suggest that it is unlikely to be abandoned as a framework for viewing women's experiences between 1861 and 1865." (239). What types historiography do you think will appear in the future surrounding women's roles during the Civil War? -ABratchie | ||
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| + | In the introduction, McPherson and Cooper point out that there are still gaps in the historiography and that some issues need to be further studied, such as the role of religion in the Union and Confederacy. Do you think that historians will be successful in addressing these gaps? Why do you think that these topics have not had sufficient treatment? -ABratchie | ||
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| + | I think the social history aspect of the Civil War is interesting. McPherson and Cooper mention it in the introduction. This focus of the civil war includes gender, race, and class. Why do you think these aspects of the war take so long to get discussed especially by historians and authors? -avanness | ||
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| + | Gary Gallagher discusses the Northern military strategy in his piece. He says that a historian named T. Harry Williams believes that the Northern generals were not "that great" because they were into more of the maneuvering rather than fighting. Do you agree? -avanness | ||
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| + | The Roark essay made it pretty clear that the main downfall of the confederacy was the lack of a cohesive economic plan. Was it inevitable that the confederacy would fail because of their reliance on States rights over a strong centralized government? R. King | ||
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| + | Yes. Logan | ||
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| + | Nazis. Drew | ||
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| + | I was struck by the lack of historiography on the trials and tribulations of lower class women, even though they made up the majority of those affected by the war. Does the difficulty lie in illiteracy; that these women didn’t or couldn’t write about their troubles? Or is it simply that the upper classes are more interesting to write about? R. King | ||
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| + | Why do academics use words like “tendentious”? R.King | ||
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| + | In Reid Mitchell's article "Not the General" But the General: The studying of Civil War Generals and on the first page Reid states that despite the status the status of Lee, Grant and Sherman among American generals, the war was not won by strategic brilliance. Both sides displayed roughly the same level of competence, and both thought about the matter militarily in the same way. What do you think of Mitchell's statement? Did the North and the South think about military matters the same way as Mitchell suggests or did the think about militarily affairs differently? Personally I think they thought about it differently and I believe that this is an important topic to bring up in class on Thursday. Nick J | ||
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| + | Mitchell talks about the culture of Northern and Southern culture. He talks about sometimes it was a shared cultural but that they were still fundamentally different. We've talked about the various cultures of the North and South but not focused directly on the soldiers. What did yall make of this? -MK | ||
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| + | Gallagher and Kolchin both mention the self-liberation of the slaves during the civil war. Who did yall think actually freed the slaves? Can it be attributed to one group or person? -MK | ||
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| + | Really, how much of the gaps in the historiography can be filled? I feel like there are not that many more primary documents to be found. I'm not saying that everything that was saved by veterans/family members of soldiers were found, but the likelihood of finding new documents 150 years later seems, unfortunately, low. -Megan Mc. | ||
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| + | Why is there so little mention of Female Soldiers in Faust's article? He says that two of the authors left out the topic because they did not see the women as 'real' women but why did Faust? I know there have been books written solely on the subject. -Megan Mc. | ||
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| + | Perhaps a literature review of the Civil War would be a good thing? What is out there, and how it is presented, may help us to examine the War in a different way. -DR | ||
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| + | In a similar vein, have we stagnated in our approach to interpretation of the Civil War? Are we so over-saturated with information that finding anything new would prove next to impossible?- DR | ||
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| + | It seems like a bit of a stretch to call the Civil War the first "Total War." Whether or not it was a total war, it little resembled the World Wars, and worse things had been done to civilians and infrastructure in past conflicts. What is it about the way we remember it that so often leads us to label it as the very first of its kind, one that set a precedent for all the wars to come? -GStan. | ||
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| + | Why was there such a strong feeling of nationhood among so many confederate soldiers, after only a very short period of independence? Had Southerners always felt so independent, or was there sense of separateness a more recent development? -GStan. | ||
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| + | How much of our memory of the Civil War is influenced by the types of books that we read bout the war? I know my perception of the war is different from a couple years ago because of the new books I read. Have you noticed some books about military aspects get facts about politics wrong while books written about politics get military aspects wrong? Logan T | ||
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| + | How many of the debates about the Civil War are problems with definitions. Gallagher talks about the problem with defining the concept of total war. Gallagher main point is on Union War strategy. Is the debate over if the South could have won the war a debate of defining winning? The South could not have defeated the North in the same way the North defeated the South but does that mean the South could not have won? Logan T | ||
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| + | Why do you think White commanders of the USCT would want command of the colored troops during the war, and were willing to endure social ostracism for it, but turned their back on them when it came to equal rights after the war? Wouldn't they be more likely to support equal rights? - AJ | ||
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| + | How widespread was the "Robin hood pattern" that Blair talks about in behind the lines? Was there actually a significant amount of generosity on the part of the planters? or was it only a few here and there? - AJ | ||
