Presented by:
Professor Christopher Phillips
Publish Date:
May 20, 2015
Presentation Length:
1 hour 24 minutes 26 seconds (1:24:26)
Description:
The Office of the Missouri Secretary of State hosted a program exploring Missouri’s cultural identity after the Civil War at the Missouri State Archives, a division of his office, on Thursday, April 30, 2015. University of Cincinnati history Professor Christopher Phillips spoke about "North Star, Southern Cross: The Cultural Politics of Civil War Memory in Missouri, 1865-1915." The American Civil War tends to be viewed as a conflict between two distinct cultures divided by the Ohio River. With its unique geography and political climate, Missouri was affected not only by this division, but also by a division between the well-populated East and the less-populated western frontier region. In the decades following the war, Missourians, formerly considered "Westerners," took different paths through the politics of regional identity by re-narrating the war and themselves, evolving as Northerners, Southerners and, more complicatedly, Midwesterners. Professor Phillips discussed how these factors helped shape the cultural identity of modern Missourians.
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