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    THE BONDS OF TRAUMA

    Jul 23, 2019 4 minutes
    with James Broomall

    HISTORIAN JAMES J. BROOMALL, director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd University in West Virginia, examined the writings of upper-class white Confederate men from the 1840s to the 1870s. While the intimacy and openness he found altered his view of white Southern masculinity, he also discovered disturbing first-person accounts of initiation rituals involving the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. His groundbreaking exploration appears in Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers published in 2019 in the University of North Carolina Press’ Civil War America series.

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