My partner and I have been thinking today about all the different narratives we were told about the civil war and the north/north’s soldiers/generals while growing up.
Outside of Abe Lincoln, I can’t think of a single positive thing. Grant was a drunk and won because he was a butcher. All the other generals were just trash. The north just had more people. The north only fought because they were snaky capitalists that wanted the south’s land (this is the most bitterly amusing one to me now, who is the most naked of all capitalistic money hungry bean counting violent money grabbers than a fucking ENSLAVER?????). And I grew up in a solid blue state that had multiple stops on the under ground railroad and was home to multiple formerly enslaved people that helped organize resistance to slavery and then troops for the civil war!
Dear partner and I have worked very hard over the years to undo and then relearn a proper civil war history- this holiday break we’re going to be watching civil war movies and laughing at the loser confederacy and doing research to find more truth.
What are the narratives you grew up with around the US civil war? And what is a truth you’ve since found out that you think the entire world should know???
#USCivilWar #CivilWar #USGrant #NorthSouth #North #South #Union #Confederacy
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TNE in HE is about collaboration, not neo-colonialism, writes Robert Coelen, director of the Centre for Internationalisation of Education at the University of Groningen:
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2018070612240068
Given that OERu is a positive example of #TNE, and #NorthSouth, #SouthSouth, and even #NorthNorth cooperation, I thought it might be found interesting.
#tne #northsouth #southsouth #northnorth