The memory of the Civil War in American culture / edited by Alice Fahs & Joan Waugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fahs, Alice.

Waugh, Joan.

Series:

Civil War America.

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil war.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Index; Introduction; Ulysses S. Grant, Historian; Shaping Public Memory of the Civil War: Robert E. Lee, Jubal A. Early, and Douglas Southall Freeman; Long-Legged Yankee Lies: The Southern Textbook Crusade; Remembering the Civil War in Children's Literature of the 1880's and 1890's; Decoration Days: The Origins of Memorial Day in North and South; The Monumental Legacy of Calhoun; Is the War Ended?: Anna Dickinson and the Election of 1872; The Election of 1896 and the Restructuring of Civil War Memory

You Can't Change History by Moving a Rock: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Politics of Confederate Memorialization Civil War, Cold War, Civil Rights: The Civil War Centennial in Context, 1960–1965; Epilogue: The Geography of Memory; Contributors;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890875396

9780807875810

0807875813

OCLC:

476236267