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US Civil War thought
Jun. 20th, 2013 08:31 pmHistory buffs may find this interesting.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/150-years-of-misunderstanding-the-civil-war/277022/
Over the last year I've been reading more American history, particularly about the Colonial era and the Revolutionary era. I need to finish off my reads there and then I plan to move onto the Civil War.
I had an excellent US history course in my home school high school days, and I still feel that my understanding of pre-1900s US is tremendously lacking. It's not just the wars/presidents, it's the social forces that produced the wars/presidents. I think of history as a Great River, where things swell and die down nearly irrespective of a given human being (rare exceptions notwithstanding). And that's sort of my interest; the society and culture surrounding the timepoints. And I don't understand the antebellum US.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/150-years-of-misunderstanding-the-civil-war/277022/
Over the last year I've been reading more American history, particularly about the Colonial era and the Revolutionary era. I need to finish off my reads there and then I plan to move onto the Civil War.
I had an excellent US history course in my home school high school days, and I still feel that my understanding of pre-1900s US is tremendously lacking. It's not just the wars/presidents, it's the social forces that produced the wars/presidents. I think of history as a Great River, where things swell and die down nearly irrespective of a given human being (rare exceptions notwithstanding). And that's sort of my interest; the society and culture surrounding the timepoints. And I don't understand the antebellum US.
