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     • In his preface, Jim Leach, the chairman of NEH, makes the point clear, writing that “emancipation is the central theme of America’s War.” Accordingly, the volume gives plenty of space to contemporary observers who saw the war primarily in terms of racism and slavery.
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   What was the central meaning of the Civil War?

   • This was the journey to understanding that the central meaning of the Civil War—and one of the central themes of American history—was the evil of slavery, racism, and white supremacy. By now, that understanding is shared by almost all scholars of the Civil War, and most laypeople as well.

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   Is the Civil War a dividing line in American literature?

   • The US Civil War (1861–1865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature. Civil War literature often includes nonfiction genres such as diaries, letters, and memoirs.

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   Why is civil war literature important?

   • Of particular interest are questions about how national history is created through collective memory as it is represented in the culture of the period. Civil War literature has also been used to gauge attitudes in the era toward race, gender, ethnicity, class, and the justifiability of war.

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   Is emancipation a central theme of America's War?

   • Certainly, it informs the selections in America’s War, whose subtitle is “Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries.” In his preface, Jim Leach, the chairman of NEH, makes the point clear, writing that “emancipation is the central theme of America’s War .”

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   How is Civil War told?

   • Most of Civil War is told through the eyes of the journalists, who are conditioned not to be biased about the war and to only capture tragic the realities of it. As documentarians, their job is to stay out of the conflict as much as possible so that they can capture and record real moments of the war that would otherwise go unseen.

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   Why is Civil War a good movie?

   • Instead, Civil War skims over these foundational details to focus on the front-and-center realities of war in general, regardless of any particular motivations. The point of the scene, and the movie at large, is that the conflict throughout Civil War is about who is shooting at you, not necessarily what side you are fighting for.

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   Sep 14, 2024 · A24's new action blockbuster Civil War has a somewhat ambiguous central message. The Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later) film explores a fictional near-future scenario in which the United States has been divided into several factions that fight against a totalitarian government led by a fascist president.

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   Apr 18, 1996 · Mark Twain wrote that the Civil War “wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations.” In Drawn With the Sword, McPherson gracefully and brilliantly illuminates this momentous conflict.

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   Rose Macaulay’s 1932 novel They Were Defeated is about the Royalist defeat in the English Civil War – comparable to the defeat of the Confederate states by the North.

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   This was the journey to understanding that the central meaning of the Civil War—and one of the central themes of American history—was the evil of slavery, racism, and white supremacy. By now, that understanding is shared by almost all scholars of the Civil War, and most laypeople as well.

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   Bruce Catton's The Civil War would make for a great entry into the realm of U.S. Civil War history for any reader. Covering all the major battles and campaigns that proved pivotal, Catton brings his usual, eminently readable narrative style to the table.

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9. www.taylorfrancis.com › books › editThemes of the American Civil War | The War Between the States ...

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   Aug 7, 2009 · Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes, complexities, and consequences of America’s most destructive conflict to date.

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    Jul 27, 2016 · The US Civil War (1861–1865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature.