2. A "people's war" because whole story of Civil War -- how it started, how it radicalized, its outcome -- is story of events taken away from elite & seized by people -- the enslaved, slave-owners, grass roots abolishionists.
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3. I think Lincoln understood this: "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." The war is a remarkable eruption of mass protests and politics on the field of history. Du Bois knew this as well.
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2. Was just thinking about how mad some lunkheads were at
@jbouie's "The slaves freed the slaves." But that's really a common sense version of the story if you have eyes to see.Show this thread
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Remains a classic. I assign it as the text for my CW course.
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I also suggest you read "For Cause and Comrades." Bottom-up style study.
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I would t characterize it that way. His first books can be understood as early works of the new social history. He came to military history later as he wrote his Civil War text.
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For Cause and Comrades, a later work, also fits that social-history model.
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I once hiked Gettysburg with Prof. McPherson and his approach to narrating that tour was focused on both the experience of individual soldiers and the larger strategy and tactics. At the time, I was struck by his ability to marry both in such a compelling manner
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Slightly different point than the one you were making but I think it speaks to the lens that he took in BCofF
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It’s such a good book.
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He’s my wife’s uncle
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