Week 6: April 12, The Soldier, the "Hero"

Reading 1: Chapter 6, "Soldiers' Faith"

Overarching question: How does masculinity and whiteness play into the post-war imagination of the common soldier?

This is completely optional reading. I will review the key ideas with the class.

Reading 2: Kirk Savage, “Common Soldiers,” in Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War,

and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America