So much for the patriarchy

[Georgia Sixth]

I find this video incredibly simplistic, but it's still worth a viewing.

Among the lessons one can draw from it's contents:
(1) Don't underestimate women
(2) Don't trust your educators
(3) There's an up tick in monuments when a generation of note is dying off.

Enjoy.

 

[Pat Young]

Good video.

 

[LoriAnn]

I wonder how the veterans themselves felt about how the memory of the war was being shaped and communicated.

 

[Mrs. V]

Textbooks used into the mid 70's! Now that is influence.

 

[Drew]

I find this video incredibly simplistic, but it's still worth a viewing.

Among the lessons one can draw from it's contents:
(1) Don't underestimate women
(2) Don't trust your educators
(3) There's an up tick in monuments when a generation of note is dying off.

Yeah, I get the bolded part. This hasn't changed with generations.

My great grandmother was UDC. She helped raise a lot of money for monuments to a generation of dying soldiers in the early 20th century.

I'm glad we've Kevin Levin and others to tell us what she really meant.

 

[mofederal]

A very interesting video, which should have a wider viewing. Thanks for posting it @Georgia Sixth.

 

[uaskme]

You Assume History telling is better Today? Monuments have always been Propaganda!

 

[CSA Today]

You Assume History telling is better Today? Monuments have always been Propaganda!

I agree to the extent that monuments are to erected to memorialize and honor one side and not the other sides. There may be exceptions where both sides are remembered, but they aren't the norm.

 

[HeyJosh13]

I don't understand, Mildred Rutherford gave speeches defending slavery and never really denied the civil war was about slavery, just clearly had a pro-Southern bias.

www.confederatepastpresent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196:mildred-rutherford-1913-address-to-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-on-race-and-slavery&catid=37:the-nadir-of-race-relations

www.confederatepastpresent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145:mildred-rutherford-defends-slavery-in-address-to-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy&catid=37:the-nadir-of-race-relations

www.confederatepastpresent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197:mildred-rutherford-1915-address-to-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-about-reconstruction&catid=37:the-nadir-of-race-relations

www.confederatepastpresent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147:mildred-rutherford-explains-how-the-civilization-of-the-old-south-was-destroyed&catid=37:the-nadir-of-race-relations

 

[John Hartwell]

"The southern soldiers were darn good fellows. A number of us Yanks stole behind Confederate lines to swap stories and trade our salt for their tobacco. On our stolen visits … we always found the enemy friendly. On both sides we felt that the war was a most unfortunate thing, and the sooner over the better. Men who fought the war would have forgotten their differences long ago, and would be having bully times together if it weren't for the women of the Confederacy." Charles W. Elgridge (interviewed in Charleston, 1938)

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/75-years-are-gone-but-old-men-will-remember.125514/page-4

 

[Viper21]

You Assume History telling is better Today? Monuments have always been Propaganda!

I agree for the most part. However, I do believe that some of the monuments weren't propaganda, & were sincere monuments "To the Confederate Dead". Often overlooked (not by you), are the fact that so many never came home. So many families never had a body to lay to rest. So many were always left wondering, & longing for something to remember, & or honor their loved one. Not the gov, not the leaders, not the pols, THEIR loved ones.

Many people find solace, in burying their dead. That comfort, that closure, was lacking for many families. Plenty of the post war monuments gave that to these families, even if much later....

 

[Old_Glory]

I find this video incredibly simplistic, but it's still worth a viewing.

I'm not sure our current textbooks are much better regarding bias. Maybe one day the whole story of the Civil War, both sides, will be told in kids history books. I'm not holding my breath though.