The Civil War/ American Homer: A Narrative (Modern Library)

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Watching “The Civil War” as a teenager several years after its initial release, I became enamored with the series—so much so that I spent my hard-earned money on the expensive companion book and the soundtrack for the haunting “ Ashokan Farewell”—a song from the 1980s (not the Civil War era!

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You have to understand that the raggedy Confederate soldier who owned no slaves and probably couldn't even read the Constitution, let alone understand it, when he was captured by Union soldiers and asked, 'What are you fighting for?

Professionals do well to apply the term "amateur" with caution to the historian outside their ranks. While there are several difficulties with “The Civil War,” the fact remains that the entire production was written, directed and produced by white men with little in the way of historical training and few connections to academic historians.

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After being transferred from one stateside base to another, his battalion was deployed to Northern Ireland in 1943. Foote protested against the KKK's use of the Confederate flag, believing 'that everything they stood for was almost exactly the opposite of everything the Confederacy had stood for'. However, the academic reviewers often complained about the absence of footnotes, and Foote's deliberate refusal to cover social, economic, and racial themes.The trouble begins with the documentary’s star: Shelby Foote is a southern novelist with a down-home drawl, a gift for storytelling, and a very troubling version of the events of 1861 to 1865. It’s worth noting that filmmakers not trained as historians, like Ava DuVernay ( Thirteenth) or Marlon Riggs ( Ethnic Notions, Color Adjustment), have been able to produce challenging and accurate documentaries. Lee “disapproved” of slavery, a fact easily challenged by the fact that Lee fought to inherit enslaved people who his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis, wanted to free. In a 2011 commentary, Ta-Nehisi Coates concluded that Foote was not guilty of "neo-Confederate apologia. We need to acknowledge that whilst the North was, in the modern parlance, on the right side of history when it came to slavery, much of what what followed was neither good nor right.

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The extent of Foote's apparent apologia for white Southern racism and Lost Cause mythologizing was satirized in the character of Sherman Hoyle in the 2004 mockumentary C. Foote concluded that most historians are "so concerned with finding out what happened that they make the enormous mistake of equating facts with truth.Foote lauded Nathan Bedford Forrest as "one of the most attractive men who ever walked through the pages of history" and dismissed what he characterized as "propaganda" about Forrest's role in the Fort Pillow Massacre.