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Show Tuesday, December 4, 1990 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Nine Buchanan from page eight Scotland had made great contributions in America. For my master's thesis, I did a study of Scottish migrations to Utah. This was an outgrowth of that earlier project Others had done German migrations and other nationalities. No one had done anything on the Scottish. People often overlook Scotland; they forget that it is from separate England. It's the junior partner of United the Kingdom," Buchanan said. "This was the beginning of my interest in things I'm Scottish. Scottish and can't get away from that. We're a very nationalistic nationalities gave my first lecture! I was invited up to the U. to read the poetry of Robert Burns, also Scottish. I had an accent you could cut with a knife. That invitation gave me some direction," Frederick Buchanan, University of Utah professor, said. Buchanan said. History is a large part of Buchanan's life. "After getting my taught history at Bountiful High School. Then, in 1963, I left for Ohio State University where I got my doctorate in education with an emphasis on the history of education." Buchanan feels there is a large interest in America for things Scottish. "There are a lot of Scots who wouldn't be caught dead in a lass Civil War complement each other just like different vegetables and spices are distinct in a stew but flavor each other." "I tend to make a lot of connections of American events "When I was 181 culture doesn't get lost in the maelstrom of a huge society," I Different with people and proud of our country. We're anxious to see that our master's, kilt in Scotland, but will wear one at the drop of a hat here in the States." "Americans like to keep parts of other cultures. America is like a pot of stew, not a melting pot. Scottish origins, it s not hard to do. Scots are ubiquitous and seem to pop in up the strangest places!" Local interest in Scottish culture is high. There are annual Scottish games and a festival. Buchanan himself was President of the Utah Scottish Association during 1975. For all his love of his Scottish Buheritage, chanan expresses his gratefulness at having opportunities in American schools. "Some people ask 'Why don't we have a system as rigorous as the Germans.' They only let the top students go to school. We, on the other hand, have 85 percent of our youth in school." "If we only let people who had completed four years of high school go to college, I would have never got in. It was that openness that I have grown to appreciate. We need to have opportunity for late developers," Buchanan said. documents add depth, dimension material, such as diaries and letters, as well as the Kathleen Ferguson Chronicle Feature Writer By and the people around them. Thus, to study culture, one must look at the ways people from all walks of life, grow, construct images and make knowledge as a whole. Susan Miller, an English professor at the University of Utah, will be teaching a course about the Civil War winter quarter in precisely this manner. The course is English 585, "Reading and Writing the Civil War; Literate and Literary". Although it is not officially a writing intensive course, it probably should be, she said. "I've been doing research about the 19th century, particularly about the time and place of the Civil War. Because I do cultural studies, I decided to use the Civil War as a way of teaching," Miller said. "The Civil War is kind of a text in itself. And we are going to be looking at everything we can find." Miller said the course will not only look into traditional resources, such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, the PBS series on the war Frederick Douglass' also but autobiography, and image nontraditional and V if rrB" mm im""' lii-- - - ffayi with his camera. She said although traditional resources such as the PBS series are important, they aren't a total picture of the war. "The PBS special was very informative. Yet, it was in a way a very traditional kind of history where you look at events and deeds of men," Miller said. "So, although there were a few voices heard from women and lower class soldiers, there were thousands and thousands of letters begging the soldiers to come home because they were starving. It was these voices that were left out," she explained. The course title reads, "literate and literary voices." Miller said this means not only the voices heard but the silent ones as well; voices in high culture and voices in low culture; insiders as well as outsiders. from Miller, originally Virginia, came to the U. eight years ago. She in an associate director of the Writing Program. In order to collect material for this class, Miller returned as a teaching fellow to Virginia. She she said found many nontraditional materials she will use to enhance the course. One . "I also found, in a folder at the Historical Society in Virginia, a document written by a women who had Petersburg, ( Tl jt I Si B - - a plantation in Va. She describes what it was like before the war started, how comfortable everybody was," Miller said. "Then the document describes what it was like during the war. Her entire farm was devastated and everything in her house was ruined. First it was the South who camped on her plantation, then the North, then the South. The document was really moving. It adds such a different perspective to what they teach in the schools," she said. , The way to get the whole picture of the Civil War, she said, is to look not only at the literature from both prominent and nonprominent texts, but also to let the students participate and decide for themselves what their perspective says about the culture at that particular time in our history. culture has constructed the Civil I ctoiyUdl she said. of the things she's especially interested in is the way our VI I War in our past and the way people living at that time created texts about the war. "A lot of people were burdened a great deal by the war; a lot of people didn't believe in slavery. I found a a diary of a man who lost absolutely everything in the Civil War. His wife died, his daughter died, his whole life was ruined. 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