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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 | 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 | ||
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| + | I thought the chapter that talked about the Civil War in Missouri was interesting. I am in the middle of reading a book about the guerilla war that went on in Missouri and I wonder why neither side of the issue as used it to back up there interpretations of the war. It would be easy to use examples from it and say the South was right or the North was right. Is it because that aspect of the war hurts both points of view and should be forgotten? Logan T | ||
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| + | The two pieces about the memory of the war are also interesting. I could not help but think when I was reading them that so many of the questions that we ask in class could be answered by basic human psychology. I also liked Ayers conclusion which stated there was “no hinge which the war turned on”. I think that a good question to ask is would have happen if the North won Manassas first and second, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. What would have happened if the South would have won Shiloh or Chattanooga? Would these battles be remembered as the turning point of the war? Logan T | ||
