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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 | 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." 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 call it that? -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. | ||
