Michael Shaara’s “Killer Angels” has me thinking that a version of the Civil War is still on-going.
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Tag Archives: Civil War
U.S. Is Still Fighting the Civil War
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Poetry Helped Feed Robert E. Lee Myth
Herman Melville and Julie Ward Howe, although anti-slavery, unfortunately wrote poems which helped mythologize Robert E. Lee, whose statues have become symbols of white supremacy. And indeed, Lee was a white supremacist.
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Whitman, Melville & Abolitionism
Walt Whitman and Herman Melville’s revolutionary visions of egalitarian societies shaped how Abolitionists thought about America’s potential.
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Lit’s Contribution to the Civil War
If the Civil War was brought on by a combination of pity and politics, literature helped build the case for pity.
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The Civil War Was Fueled by Poetry
Scholar Faith Barrett shows how the War between the States was a “poetry fueled war.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Battle Hymn of the Republic, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Julie Ward Howe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Comments closed