Analysis Of Confederates In The Attic

The book, “Confederates in the Attic,” has several themes, but a few major ones can easily be pointed out. First, it would be how the civil war seems to have an impact on every single person in the south in some way. Which ultimately shows how people like to feel as if they’re unique in some way, or special, hence why many southerners like to point out their famous ancestors in the Civil War. The other running theme in the book is the need to escape the fast pace reality of the modern world. The people who like to reenact, known as “reenactors”, and their obsession with being “hardcore” is the main example of this strong need for escape, as the simple life of the Civil War era can provide such escape. It’s like a hobby for them but I doubt they would refer to it as a hobby but more like a way of life away from reality. The

His family connection to the Civil War gave him a sense of pride. Modern Americans should remember and memorialize the Civil War by knowing that the event determined what kind of nation the United States would be. The Civil War is the most significant conflict in American history; it had a revolutionary, social, and political impact that continues to be felt today. We were taught the civil war was primarily fought because of slavery but in truth “there were many causes of the civil war, including differences between northern and southern states on the idea of slavery, as well as trade, tariffs, and states rights.”

The title of the book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil, expresses two meanings in Tony Horwitz’s considerate and engaging exploration of the role of the American Civil War in the modern world of the South. The first connotation of the title signifies to Horwitz’s personal interest in the war. As the grandson of a Russian Jew, who also enjoyed reading