"Teaching the ACW in the Deep South" Topic

…Each year, Yarborough gives his students in his African American and U.S. history classes a list of people buried in Columbus's two historic cemeteries — Sandfield and Friendship, the latter the resting place of many Confederate soldiers. Most of the people on the list have never been researched before, so students spend months poring over primary records in the town's archives. Their final project is a performance written and directed by the students, and anywhere from 100 to 2,000 people from all over the state show up to see them…

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Thank-you Bill, for posting/linking this very interesting article.

Very good article.

Interesting. Thank you.

That is very interesting. And sounds like a good way to generally get a "better", more maybe even version of what happened then.

Of course some one should do the same in the North. Seems to me most in the US know very little about their own country's history. Or in many cases care … sadly …

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Indeed, and the level of "forgetfulness" in the US appears to be a case study in "those who forget history are condemned to repeat it".

Of course, sometimes "remembering", as in Europe and the Middle East, often means that old conflicts never go away…

Agree totally on both points Pan Merck. E.g. I remember when the war in the former Yugoslavia was hot. One side was talking about a battle that happened in something like 1357 ? Wow … I'd think with over 600 years passing it might have been time to move on. And AFAIK the UN/NATO, etc., still have forces there.

The same goes for places in the Mid East … some still refer to Westerners as "Crusaders" … Again I'd think it would be time to move on. And when countries, religions, tribes, ethnicities, etc. are not still mad/fighting the Crusaders or Israel they are often fighting among themselves.

A'stan seems to be the same. With 6 major tribes, 2-3 religious factions, various warlords, clerics, ethnicities, etc. That have been at war off and on for centuries. And it does not look like in the Mid East or A'stan that things will change any time soon.

And then there is Africa …

So yes, old conflicts never go away, no matter, what the West, UN, NGOs, etc., do or try to do.

So much blood & treasure wasted even since while I have been alive. Some 6 decades + … with more on the way it appears.

My father-in-law grew up in Texas. He said he never knew that the South lost the Civil War until he joined the Navy!