For me, doing the movements that the military made always informed my teaching. He was married and had a child on the way. But his family had come from Northern Ireland just two years before, so I give him a brogue. My units have always been more hardcore. I cook as authentically as I can. It makes me happy. People who reenact are three types. There are the people who are interested in the history of it. There are the people interested in history who try to give proper view of the time period as best they know it.
And then the third part are the yahoos. They want to play with guns. They have the lost cause thing going. In New Orleans, I was on a tour, and the guide was trying to say the war was over tariffs, that they were doing it because they wanted to make money. But he was telling that to people on the tour, rather than give the proper context of the actual causes of the Civil War.
We [the serious reenactors] fight that. To me, I think the Civil War plays a seminal part in our history. Had the Union failed to win, we would be a third-ranked power. The South would be a third-world nation with their economic system. They would have kept slavery, like Brazil, and then experienced some form of apartheid.
They would have been a colony of the North, and northern manufacturing would have controlled them. The North would have been a smaller country. And who knows what would have happened with the West? Because the North won the war, we started on a path toward modern industrial state, becoming the most powerful country in the world.
So when we have reenactments, we have fun with it. We need to understand the role of slavery and how it continues to play into our politics, the white supremacy movement. And we can do that with reenactments.
There was an interesting incident in Lake County, Illinois. This year it got canceled because the chair asked what did it have to do with African Americans? He got hammered for it.
But I own guns. Is there no better way to understand history than dress up? These questions are what separates the reenactment culture in America and Ireland. In the United States, primarily men will dress as Union and Confederate soldiers. The truth of Confederacy reenactment is that these men are representing men who were fighting for slavery in America but their will to reenact is so they can revive an idea of masculinity and honor. This sheds light onto a key difference in Ireland as they are doing this activity to give honor to the men and women who died fighting for a central idea of freedom.
In , Dr. Michael Levy conducted a study into the psychology behind reenactments, specifically those done by trauma victims. The study gave insightful knowledge into the world of military reenactment as well. At times, the attempt is an adaptive process that facilitates the successful resolution and working through of the earlier trauma. In other words, there are plenty of issues keeping racism alive. Skip to content. Latest Opinion. Most Read. Horoscopes Daily horoscope for November 13,
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