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This 3 page paper analyzes the article by historian Charles Joyner and contends that historians more than anyone insist on perpetuating the memory of the Civil War into contemporary and future memory. No additional sources are listed.
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in the psyches of the mainstream American public for as long as our country exists. It might be contended that the reason for this otherworldly longevity of the Civil
War in the minds of mainstream America is not that it was so horrible, not that it was so meaningful in defining us as a nation, but rather it is
meaningful to mainstream America because of the focus the war has had with historians. Mainstream Americans are too caught up in the ritz and glamor of our contemporary cultural
void to care much about the real meaning of history. They have to have some persistent force to make them care. As Joyner (20) observes, "the history of
war has been a thriving enterprise". Nothing could be better stated. The Civil War seems to be a particularly valuable entrepreneurial opportunity for anyone that wants to make
his or her name in academia!. Joyner himself must shoulder some of the responsibility for perpetuating the memory of the Civil War.
He is, of course, a noted historian. His article "Forget, Hell!: The Civil War in Southern Memory", however, is not about battle strategy or about the lives of
those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has had on contemporary Americans. On closer inspection, however, the reader
soon discovers that Joyners real objective is decidedly different. Joyner was born just a few decades after the Civil War had ended.
As a Southerner he grew up among some that had fought in the war. He remembers their stories of the battlefield but, more importantly, he remembers the pervading sense
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