[inaudible conversations] >> what to do with this? >> leave it for now. >> up next, for which both tvs recent trip to macon, georgia. >> when i was in graduate school, a couple of things. southern history and a minor in women's studies. i was interested in the way in which none can add cream about

order. and the late 80s, early 90s about women as passive phase. i was curious about something women he supported the war effort and talked about war. it was a meeting to this talk. one of my authors, alan pascale who was again a popular southern writer from virginia said what the southern literature needs is blood to near ash irony to be owed to write about its most recent past. the ones who participated in the shared effort to create a version of the confederate war experience, even in the postwar brand names, as in a 22nd third generations, right with support for the confederacy.

most on the war is just. there were a few women who sold what i would claim as distinctly separate stories that the war are passive phase. late 1890s turn-of-the-century kamal and glasco wrote three books. she did them in the reverse order so she wrote one on the populist movement of the 1890s first amendment and the reconstruction era knacks and then one on this unaware. i look at all three of those novels because she's very prominently in my boat. that was her phrase that what southern literature needs is blood and irony. that's where the phrase comes from. the most well-known authors who wrote or the civil war itself, the women named attested gene advance or 30 civil war novel that came out late in the war,

1864 and it looks that what is the proper role for a confederate woman? how can women and the confederacy support the war effort and yet remain true to gender conventions because that is a tough one to negotiate. what is the proper way to demonstrate female patriotism? women were not to go out in public and give speeches. they were not to act. they were not too bright. those are all public performances. what kind of roles for women play during the war and yet show their support for the war effort? that's one of those early writings. there are not very many novels to come out during the civil war era. there's a lot of diaries, journals that come out intend to

be published later. by chesnutt is the most famous patient at the wartime diary, revised it yourself in the late 1880s at the night towards publication. she passed away. it was not published in our lifetime, but her literary executor sprouted in addition in 1905. another addition cannot in 1941 and the addition that scholars are familiar with that was edited came out in the early 1980s. he spun and saw as participating in a shared effort to create a confederate narrative of the war. the imperatives may change a bit over time, but they also saw themselves in age than that particular project. in the 1880s, a popular new york magazine new york magazine, century magazine ran a series, battles and leaders of the civil

war. grant contributed to that at a number of generals and soldiers contributed to that theory. they solicited manuscripts from folks and women wrote in to describe what it was like on the homefront. i went to the new york public library looked in the archives of century magazine and this woman would attach letters to the manuscripts and say i'm offering this to contribute to this series. if you don't like it, please send it back as i think i can place it elsewhere. so they were very clear that the postwar writings, you know, were designed for publication in the publishing firm turned them down in one magazine if they intended to extend it to another magazine. they felt strongly they have something important to say and