four major interpretive traditions of the american civil war
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Four Interpretive TraditionsDr. Bruce Clary
Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Lost Cause
Northwest Ordinance1787
•Established territory west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River as free territory
Romanticizes the Old South
Slavery a benign institution
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
The Union Cause
The world’s last, best hope
“A more perfect Union”
The Reconciliation Cause
Effacement of Emancipation
Celebration of both Blue and Gray
Appomatox: Where it began
Capitulation to the Lost Cause
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.