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Anyone else find it remarkable that less than 10 years ago there were several Civil War veteran widows still alive? It shows that even though we've reached the 150th anniversary it still wasn't ''that'' long ago. America's history is relatively young compared to European history. -Megan Mc. | Anyone else find it remarkable that less than 10 years ago there were several Civil War veteran widows still alive? It shows that even though we've reached the 150th anniversary it still wasn't ''that'' long ago. America's history is relatively young compared to European history. -Megan Mc. | ||
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| + | Is the heritage movement that different from the Lost Cause? Many Lost Causers defend their view in the name of Southern heritage, so what exactly differentiates the two groups?- aaskins | ||
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| + | With the way that Civil War memory and artifacts are honored and collected, why did Alberta not receive more attention than she did?- aaskins | ||
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| + | On page 313, when Horowitz describes one of the speakers at a Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting, I gained a very different idea of what the SCV meetings were like, especially compared to the meeting from the earlier chapters. Contrary to the earlier meeting which seemed fairly dignified and with a decent amount of cheer later on, this speaker made it seem like the SCV was a bunch of old angry men who got together and whined when they didn't get their way and childishly accused others of being jealous of them. - AJ | ||
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| + | We talked about it briefly last class, but in the end how effective was Horowitz' approach to writing about everything he had learned/ been through? Did his writing style help or hurt his appeal and/or content? - AJ | ||
