What Is the Future of Confederate History?

Pat Young

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So, this program in Richmond is "sold out" but the question it addresses is one I thought that those of who can't get in could discuss here. Please confine your comments to the issue of the future of Confederate History. This is not about statues or flags, but about how serious students and scholars of history will, or should, approach this field. -Pat

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After Charleston and Charlottesville: The Future of Confederate History

Thursday, October 18, 2018 - SOLD OUT
7:30 pm
Ukrop Auditorium, Robins School of Business, on the University of Richmond campus
Free, reservations recommended.

How have - and how should - the national soul-searching about the Confederacy and its legacies affect the way students of Civil War history engage with their subject? What does the future hold for the study of Confederate history in the wake of Charleston and Charlottesville?

The 2018 Elizabeth Roller Bottimore lecture will address those and other questions in what promises to be a thoughtful and freewheeling discussion between two of America's most prominent scholars and Civil War public historians - Dr. Gary Gallagher and Dr. Edward Ayers.
 
The Confederacy does not compare well to 2oth century Germany. Germany in the era of Bismark, and the post Civil War United States are comparable. Ideas and people were flowing back and forth between the two countries.
Germany was bordered by post Napoleonic France and by Czarist Russia. The United States was surrounded by oceans, friendly Canada and a weak Mexico. Its not an excuse for what happened in Europe, but the geographic circumstances were going to have an impact.
 
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What previous history would have warned the Secessionists that secession would not succeed?
The poor seccessionists knew nothing about history. If they did, they'd realize that their seccessionist documents would be cause for hanging and much worse. But being Americans, as Americans do this very day, they were caught up in the moment. They had a better, a NEW solution to their problem.Take it and run.
 
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The poor seccessionists knew nothing about history. If they did, they'd realize that their seccessionist documents would be cause for hanging and much worse. But being Americans, as Americans do this very day, they were caught up in the moment. They had a better, a NEW solution to their problem.Take it and run.
Or politicians just have to talk.
 
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How did the Lost Cause Confederacy of the post war era form? Caroline Janney speaks about the formation of memory. Does anyone care about whether unionists from the south sold out and moved north to escape blacks, lawless chaos and the draft? Did that create a unified opinion in what had been the Confederate states?
I am not aware of Unionists who moved North to escape black's. Any examples. Yes many did not want to be conscripted not drafted. There is a difference between conscription and the draft.
Yes especially in Northern Arkansas lawlessness did cause many to flee to Missouri which despite it's own insurgency was somewhat safer then Arkansas. A good source is " The Uncivil War" by McKay. Full citation if you're interested.
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The poor seccessionists knew nothing about history. If they did, they'd realize that their seccessionist documents would be cause for hanging and much worse. But being Americans, as Americans do this very day, they were caught up in the moment. They had a better, a NEW solution to their problem.Take it and run.
How can Secession not succeed. Everyone knows one Johnny Rebels can easily beat ten Billy Yanks:lee:
Leftyhunter
 
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