Do temperance and self-restraint help recast masculine norms?
Some suggestions: You might connect this open-ended question with Fick, who argues that temperance and self-restraint are the regulatory mechanisms for post-war capitalistic excesses. Hedges might also give valuable background for this question. McPherson’s chapter also touches on the ideas of respectability and masculinity in war, emphasizing the different between Lee’s “southern soldiers” and Grant’s “Yankee vandals” (649). Are the standards for white masculine behavior different in the army than in the industrial workplace? How do we read General Pickett, who “looked like a cross between a Cavalier dandy and a riverboat gambler”? Consider the politics of the magazine at hand. Question #3: How is New Orleans portrayed as the site for making future citizens? Some suggestions: With the Union capture of Fort Hudson and the occupation of New Orleans by Federal troops, New Orleans became the chief site for Southern resistance. However, many of the “future” citizens of New Orleans would ha
