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A review by sara_shocks
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
4.0
4.5 / 5 stars (rounded down)
I had to put this down several times to scream (inside my heart). It's an outstanding examination of how Americans create and recreate history, how history is embodied and what this devotion to the Civil War in particular means to those focused on it. I think he needed a little more development of the penultimate chapter on the Civil Rights movement and how that history is viewed & taught versus the Civil War, but that's also related to what I as a person in 2020 think versus how such topics were discussed in the mid-1990s.
I had to put this down several times to scream (inside my heart). It's an outstanding examination of how Americans create and recreate history, how history is embodied and what this devotion to the Civil War in particular means to those focused on it. I think he needed a little more development of the penultimate chapter on the Civil Rights movement and how that history is viewed & taught versus the Civil War, but that's also related to what I as a person in 2020 think versus how such topics were discussed in the mid-1990s.