tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799357743004909192.post8762746852262661324..comments2024-01-04T23:48:09.384-05:00Comments on Pawnderings on Games: Buckles and memorySeth Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206653100499935990noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799357743004909192.post-68156750021352751322011-03-07T14:27:12.876-05:002011-03-07T14:27:12.876-05:00The "Lost Cause" was the post-Civil War ...The "Lost Cause" was the post-Civil War revisionism that downplayed the role slavery played in causing the war and in its conduct in favor of emphasizing the "nobility" of the Southern combatants and the secondary or side disputes such as tariffs and state's rights.<br />This turned out to be convenient for many on both sides of the war, especially after the Reconstruction era as it allowed the white upper class to reassert control over southern society and allowed the northerners to re-integrate the southerners back into the national polity. <br />This was a powerful brew and it took nearly another century for meaningful questioning of that mythology to arise and even now there's a lot of support for that point of view in the popular culture (although it's fallen into disrepute among serious historians.)<br />It's interesting that World War I remains firmly in our "modern" era even though it was much closer chronologically to the Civil War than our time.Seth Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12206653100499935990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799357743004909192.post-59051110346235574872011-03-05T19:16:40.475-05:002011-03-05T19:16:40.475-05:00I'm curious how you define "The Lost Caus...I'm curious how you define "The Lost Cause Myth".<br /><br />The centennial of WWI is certainly a milestone. I think in our minds we keep it in the modern era along with WWII and ourselves. After all there were machineguns, tanks, planes, and submarines. In actuality it was much closer in time to the Civil War, and sit about halfway between today and the days of Napoleon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com