The memory of the Civil War in American culture /
The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time.
| Други автори: | Fahs, Alice., Waugh, Joan. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2004.
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| Серия: |
Civil War America (Series)
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Print version::
Memory of the Civil War in American culture. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction / Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh
- Ulysses S. Grant, historian / Joan Waugh
- Shaping public memory of the Civil War : Robert E. Lee, Jubal A. Early, and Douglas Southall Freeman / Gary W. Gallagher
- Long-legged Yankee lies : the Southern textbook crusade / James M. McPherson
- Remembering the Civil War in children's literature of the 1880s and 1890s / Alice Fahs
- Decoration days : the origins of Memorial Day in North and South / David W. Blight
- The monumental legacy of Calhoun / Thomas J. Brown
- Is the war ended? : Anna Dickinson and the election of 1872 / J. Matthew Gallman
- The election of 1896 and the restructuring of Civil War memory / Patrick J. Kelly
- You can't change history by moving a rock : gender, race, and the cultural politics of Confederate memorialization / LeeAnn Whites
- War, cold war, civil rights : the Civil War Centennial in context, 1960-1965 / Jon Wiener
- Epilogue : the geography of memory / Stuart McConnell.