What's with our obsession with the Civil War? Sure, this is an Australian who doesn't really "get" it, but he makes some good points. How could the North have won the war, but the South end up with all the pride and "glory"? Why do we romanticize it so? Why do so many people have such an utter obsession with it? I don't really know. I mean, it's undoubtedly a big part of American history, but what is it so particularly lodged in our collective imaginations? Can it really be simple nationalism (i.e. that both sides were American, so there are no "durn ferners" in the story)?
(Via Bookslut)
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