The Context of the Civil War

In 1915, it's 50 years since the end of the Civil War. The mid 1920s is 10 years after the half century anniversary. Buster Keaton was just like, the number one thing I serve is the audience and I want to make the audience laugh. That is my primary job. And he was like, I watch movies that make fun of Southerners and they die. They die in the theater. Sure. He was like, it just seems comedically impossible for whatever reason. Right. It's not so much that there's no appetite for doing stuff about the war, but the consensus position among white Americans is the war was a terrible tragedy. We need to put all