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- W2986422281 abstract "The New Civil War Revisionism, Twenty Years LaterA Roundtable in Honor of Edward L. Ayers Daniel W. Crofts (bio), Tamika Nunley (bio), Christopher Phillips (bio), Matthew E. Stanley (bio), Gregory P. Downs (bio), and Edward L. Ayers (bio) introduction by matthew e. stanley and christopher phillips Presented in the December 2011 volume of Civil War History, historian J. David Hacker's groundbreaking research revised one of the least revisable figures in US history—620,000, the number of Civil War dead. Drawing on new data and methods, especially new census data, Hacker projected that war's human toll was closer to 750,000 and perhaps as high as 850,000.1 Not only has this new body count led historians to amend one of the war's most recognizable facts, but it also, in a sense, upped the war's ante. Hacker's estimate speaks to a fundamental human if not historical calculation: what amount of suffering for what amount of good? This question of the Civil War's costs is of particular interest to a body of scholars—or, more accurately, overlapping and intersecting bodies of scholars—who are sometimes characterized, disparagingly or not, as neo-revisionist. Influenced, no doubt, by the American experience in Vietnam and, more recently, by forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the War on Terror, the Great Recession, and the surveillance and carceral states, so-called neo-revisionists eschew the nationalist and even celebratory flourishes that sometimes pervade Civil War histories, balancing emphases on agency and redemption with healthy doses of suffering and subjugation. Revisionists of the new variety frequently highlight the paramountcy of emancipation and only rarely adhere to the needless war, repressible conflict, [End Page 373] or blundering generation interpretations associated with Avery Craven and James G. Randall. Rather, they tend to construct their interpretations and color their narratives with a sense of darkness, emphasizing especially the war's violence, trauma, dislocation, and chaos. Pushing back against self-satisfying metanarratives of the Civil War, as well as those underscoring neo-abolitionist themes, neo-revisionism has provided energy for some of the most dynamic and fruitful historical debates currently being waged in the field. During the 1960s, sentimentalized celebrations of the American Civil War overlapped with the high-water mark of the civil rights movement. Powerfully affected by the latter, historians sought new ways to understand the former. Insisting that slavery was the essential catalyst for the war and emancipation its paramount consequence, they scuttled revisionist interpretations developed during the 1930s and 1940s, most notably in the scholarship of James G. Randall and Avery Craven, that America suffered no uncompromisable sectional antagonisms that necessitated a repressible conflict. Revisionist ideas, attached particularly to the nurtured amid post–World War I disillusionment, tended to see all wars as wastes of lives and treasure and posited a blundering generation that propelled the nation into a needless and catastrophic conflict. Revulsion at the human costs of war impelled revisionists to challenge post–Civil War nationalists such as George Bancroft and Albert G. Beveridge, who framed the war as an irrepressible conflict between slavery and freedom. The slavery issue as a troublemaking and warmaking influence requires the most careful restudy, Randall told the Southern Historical Association in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1939. Either of two extremes here is fundamentally misleading. To say that the slavery questions actually in dispute between the sections were vital to the point of justifying war is one extreme. The other extreme is to write of prewar times and of the Lincoln crisis as if slavery had nothing to do with it. When one considers war causation, the extent to which the slavery issue was twisted and endlessly played up in popular discussions and political wranglings is an inescapable fact.2 The new mood among historians in the 1960s celebrated the most tangible outcome of what new nationalist historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. had been arguing about the Civil War since the end of the Second World War: any just war must have a moral cause, and the wartime and postwar ending of slavery provided a key step forward in the national struggle for racial justice. Taking Schlesinger's cue, a new generation..." @default.
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