Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
7-26-2012
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
Over the past few days I've been thinking about violence. We are a culture of violence. We idolize blind rage and violence, we normalize it and worship it....
We, as a collective American culture, promote violence, normalize it as the proper reaction to any given problem and outright encourage it. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Rudy, John M., "Fifty Shades of Blue and Grey: Civil War Torture Porn?" (2012). Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public. 122.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/interpretcw/122
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Comments
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public is written by alum and adjunct professor, John Rudy. Each post is his own opinions, musings, discussions, and questions about the Civil War era, public history, historical interpretation, and the future of history. In his own words, it is "a blog talking about how we talk about a war where over 600,000 died, 4 million were freed and a nation forever changed. Meditating on interpretation, both theory and practice, at no charge to you."