In the 1880s, Mary Boykin Chesnut transformed her wartime journals into one of the most important first-person accounts and literary works of the Civil War era. With an examination of how changing medical theories influenced Chesnut's writing, this article analyzes the represen...
Jones begins by considering the relation of Scott to Austen and beyond, but moves on insightfully to note how "realism paradoxically provides a framework with which to understand the tension between history and narrative" (15). Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature Lost causes...
The Lost Cause is a pseudo-historical narrative created in the late 1890s and early 1900s that sought to rehabilitate the image of the Confederacy and... Learn more about this topic: The Legacy of the American Civil War from Chapter 16/ ...
Hulbert also examines Edwards's role in shaping the narrative of the James-Younger gang and the Lost Cause in Missouri. While the book acknowledges Edwards's white supremacist views, it does not fully explore the implications of his beliefs on racial hierarchy. However, it effectively demonstrates...
In an attempt to make such claims look and sound legitimate, advocates of a pseudo-historical narrative or ideology will use research methods and language that mimics those used in legitimate historical research. Answer and Explanation: The total defeat of the...
To the Lost Cause, rewriting the narrative of the war was as important as erecting monuments, and it largely worked. Still to this day, many I know in Louisiana believe the Civil War was more about states’ rights than preserving slavery. Even leaders at the highest levels of our national...
Untold Stories: The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials And - perhaps most important of all - how can recovering the lost stories and imagining new narrative forms reconfigure the discipline?Many of the trials examined in this book have hardly ever before been discussed; others have been ......
This dating helps explain the appearance of this historical narrative,22 for under Tibe-rius the authors of similar ones were punished and the works were burned. As-inius Pollio thought it prudent to end his historical account at 42 BC, and even the young Claudius was dissuaded from covering...
This narrative, shrouded in obscurity until now, emerges as a veritable epic, conceivably the paramount unsolved enigma in the annals of U.S. history. It possesses the power to reshape history itself, potentially altering the precise genesis of World War II between the United States and Japan....
Third, reject the “army-people-resistance” formula. The narrative that Hezbollah’s military is integral to Lebanon’s defense must be demolished. Any attempt to revive this framework under Berri’s control would perpetuate Lebanon’s instability. ...