
Season 3 · Episode 272
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 272: Hey, Remember the Civil War? w/ Matthew Stanley
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
May 6, 20211h 2mExplicit
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Show Notes
Abraham Lincoln: Working class hero? Holy Angel of Liberation? Capitalist collaborator? Matthew Stanley has some ideas for us. As an associate professor of history at Albany State University, his work focuses on how we remember the Civil War, and why that matters. In this conversation we discuss his latest book, Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War, which explores the diverse ways that historical memories and images of war function within radical political movements.