Lecture slides.

1. Four Interpretive Traditions
Dr. Bruce Clary
Thursday, January 3, 2013

2. The Lost Cause

3. Northwest Ordinance
1787
•Established territory
west of the
Appalachians and
north of the Ohio
River as free territory
Romanticizes the Old South

4. Slavery a benign institution

5. Secession was
the second
American
Revolution

6. Suffering South

7. Honor
retained

8. Saintly heroes

9. Reconstruction as revenge
This replica of a slave trade ship moored by Tower Bridge in 2007 to commemorate
the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act.

10. The Union Cause

11. The world’s
last, best hope

12. “A more perfect
Union”

13. A powerful force for good

14. The Emancipation Cause

15. Four million freed

16. Slave power conspiracy

17. Emancipation as military necessity

18. Black emancipators

19. The noble enterprise

20. Opposition to Lost Cause

21. The Reconciliation Cause

22. Effacement of Emancipation

23. Celebration of both Blue and Gray

24. Appomatox: Where it began

25. Capitulation to the Lost Cause

26. Sources
Gallagher, Gary W. Causes Won, Lost, & Forgotten: How
Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the
Civil War. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2008.
Goldfield, David. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American
South and Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
UP, 2002.
McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics
in the Civil War South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP,
2010.