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Podcast: Addressing Gettysburg
Episode: PATREON PREVIEW- Private Confederacies- The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers- with Author James J Broomall
Description: Â I feel like a broken record, but what a great time I had inertviewing Jim Broomall about his book "Private Confederacies". We met near the monument of the 111th Pa on Culp's Hill, in the shade, with a nice, gentle Pennsylvania breeze which seems to be a rarity for these in-the-field recordings in 2020. Anyway... How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum c...