four major interpretive tradition of the american civil war
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Four Interpretive TraditionsDr. Bruce Clary
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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The Lost Cause
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Northwest Ordinance1787
•Established territory west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River as free territory
Romanticizes the Old South
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Slavery a benign institution
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Secession was the second American
Revolution
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Suffering South
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Honor retained
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Saintly heroes
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This replica of a slave trade ship moored by Tower Bridge in 2007 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act.
Reconstruction as revenge
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The Union Cause
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The world’s last, best hope
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“A more perfect Union”
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A powerful force for good
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The Emancipation Cause
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Four million freed
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Slave power conspiracy
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Emancipation as military necessity
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Black emancipators
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The noble enterprise
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Opposition to Lost Cause
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The Reconciliation Cause
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Effacement of Emancipation
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Celebration of both Blue and Gray
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Appomatox: Where it began
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Capitulation to the Lost Cause
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Sources
Gallagher, Gary W. Causes Won, Lost, & Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2008.
Goldfield, David. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002.
McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010.
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