Definitive information—especially that surrounding mass events like the Civil War or places where oral history and folklore were the dominant recording methods for generations—can be elusive.
As scholarship weaves between academics and hobbyists (such as myself) and obscure printed sources yield to online ephemera, achieving objective consensus on historical research can become an elusive, frustrating sinkhole.
With that in mind, I am duty-bound to offer breadcrumbs for those looking to corroborate or recreate my own work. So too, I need to provide a roadmap as I attempt to cite and reconcile conflicting sources.
Please think of this as a Works Cited page—a vessel to embrace and carry every disparate piece of information I have picked up along the way on this four year journey.
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A vast category encompassing archives of primary sources, definitive volumes from iconic historians, rare monographs, esoteric articles and a few essential dissertations.
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From the inner workings of the brain to plate tectonics, a host of information across lines of scale rounds out historical conjecture with a firm grounding in fact.
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The love of wisdom is truly the lion’s share of the work when you’re attempting to reframe the epistemology of tried and true Civil War historiography.