13 days ago
Boulder Weekly
I suspect you had to be a historian, or anyway teach U.S. history at some level, in some decade, to fully appreciate the passions, struggles and sometimes the pure nuttiness of the discussion of the U.S. Civil War era (Anderson Files, “Fake history of Civil War fuels MAGA,” Jan. 19, 2023). By the 1980s, Schlesinger and even such past stalwarts of liberal histories of the South as C. Vann Woodward, raged in the pages of the The New Republic against “revisionism,” “divisive history,” “history without central narratives” of American freedom ever advancing, etc. Paul Buhle, Providence, Rhode IslandCriticism for Dave AndersonAs much as I usually love Dave Anderson’s columns, his latest, about the Civil War, could have been better (Anderson Files, “Fake history of Civil War fuels MAGA,” Jan. 19, 2023). In recent years I have frequently gotten the impression that a lot of Americans are confused about the Civil War. Or he may have done absolutely nothing about slavery — if it were up to Donald Trump, slavery might still exist today.
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