Finding the Source: An Interview with Dr. Gary Gallagher

CWI Director, Peter Carmichael and Assistant Director, Ashley Whitehead Luskey interview Dr. Gary Gallagher to talk about his new book "The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis."
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[@runtoth3abyss]

May there be a day when people buy more Gary Gallagher books than Shelby Foote books on the Civil

[@jude999]

Gary Gallagher has denied the fact that there are numerous primary records of blacks fighting for the South. I don't understand this.

[@runtoth3abyss]

@@jude999 No he hasn't. Those black soldiers were slaves put in arms in March of 1865 and he rightfully denies the lost cause arguments which misuse that.
Lost Cause mythology is anti-American and it's good that as a reputable historian he stands against such falsehoods

[@johnj.baranski6553]

what's the discount code

[@runtoth3abyss]

Oh man Billy Whiley reference right there is a deep cut. But even those books the life of Johnny Reb had a lot more flourish because of the romanticism of the southern soldier. Those books really show the southern bias of Civil War scholarship.

[@ucpanda7578]

Gallagher today is totally removed from Gallagher a decade ago in the sense he is really hamming up up the race issue. This is likely because of the climate in Charlottesville.

[@hardheadjarhead]

“Hamming up”? If he’s addressing it it’s because if the national climate-not just Charlottesville-and the issues currently brought up by both sides. People are talking about it in the context of the Civil War, and asking him about it. Of course he’s going to talk about it. He and McPherson and others have been bringing up the context of race in the Civil war for years. How can they not?

[@jude999]

He's lost a lot of credibility by refusing to acknowledgie that blacks served in combat rolls in the Confederacy during the war. Certainly very few, but not to acknowledge it at all is dishonest.

[@F4m1LyGuy10]

@@hardheadjarhead Let's just say that people like ucpanda would love for the Civil War to be referred to as the "War of Northern Aggression".

[@tommac5411]

Someone should comb their hair.

[@westnash]

And lose the scarf!