In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
North versus South Revisited
By Janet Evans
Monday, Aug 25 2008, 06:40 AM
I knew the South was more interested in glorifying war than fighting it to win.
And I knew the North was far superior in leadership and just plain common sense.
I've lived in New England and in the Deep South. I had a teacher who kept a Confederate flag hung front and center in his school office when I was in high school.
I think the Civil War is a unique study...and while we think there were only two sides to the conflict, it was really filled with many layers of controversy.
I
mage: AJC.com
"Generations of students have been taught that the South lost the Civil War because of the North’s superior industry and population. A new book suggests another reason: Southerners were largely responsible for defeating the Confederacy.
In “Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War, historian David Williams of Valdosta State University lays out some tradition-upsetting arguments that might make the granite brow of Jefferson Davis crack on Stone Mountain.
“With this book,” wrote Publishers Weekly, “the history of the Civil War will never be the same again.”
Actually, historians have long fallen into two camps in explaining the Confederacy’s demise — one stressing the Union’s advantages, the other the South’s divisions. Williams gives vivid expression to the latter view, drawing on state and local studies done primarily in the past two decades."
Read William's interview HERE
