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Do you agree with Ayers assessment that today's understanding of the civil war came out of, at least in part, a desire to "restock Robert Penn Warren's "Treasury of Virtue"" after the vietnam war, giving the north, south, and black american's a piece of the different virtues that he speaks about? -AJ | Do you agree with Ayers assessment that today's understanding of the civil war came out of, at least in part, a desire to "restock Robert Penn Warren's "Treasury of Virtue"" after the vietnam war, giving the north, south, and black american's a piece of the different virtues that he speaks about? -AJ | ||
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| + | Was anyone else curious about some of the terminology used in the Whites article? In several cases, the phrase "laid claim" is used to in conjunction with the UDC and Confederate memory. What are the implications of any group "laying claim" to some aspect of public memory?- DR | ||
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| + | Do you agree with Shackel when he says that public memory is, in many ways, a power struggle? If memory is collective, and the memories of each individual group vying for power help create a broader public memory, how do we justify the power that the Lost Cause currently holds?- DR | ||
