re: Civil War Confederate veteran interview

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You aren't practicing any 'objectivity' either, man

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You’re too emotionally involved in the subject to recognize objectivity. You’re like a rabid Bama fan when anyone says anything other than sunshine pumping about the Nick Saban. They can’t see it. Neither can you.

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You aren't practicing any 'objectivity' either, man. You are pretending that your perspective is the objective one, but aren't considering what your sources are nor what bias they may possess. It is a real sloppy way of reaching 'objectivity' in terms of 'reproducibility,' as you aren't doing the basic work that historians do to reach any standard of impartiality. Maybe you should try to pick up some techniques of modern historians rather than scream into the either about 'modern viewpoints.

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My sources are decades of study of texts, biographies, and autobiographies of the men from both sides, books from the perspective of both sides, touring the battlefields, discussing the matter with Civil War historians (really the best source IMO). But I didn’t just stop there, I’ve also spent a lifetime studying the decades before not only the Civil War, but also into Colonial times and the age of exploration.


And as for modern histories, I’d you were like me and not just lean on modern writings for understanding you’d see just how modern politics has infected what is supposed to be history in the past roughly 50 years. A good deal of what passes for history today is little better than revisionist propaganda.