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Sacred Memories [electronic resource] : The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas / by Kelly McMichael.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMichael, Kelly.
- Series:
- Fred Rider Cotten popular history series ; no. 19.
- Fred Rider Cotten popular history series ; no. 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War memorials--Texas--History.
- War memorials.
- Soldiers' monuments--Texas--History.
- Soldiers' monuments.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments.
- United States.
- Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Texas : Texas State Historical Association, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- War memorials are symbols of a community's sense of itself, the values it holds dear, and its collective memory. They inform us more, perhaps, about the period in which the memorials were erected than the period of the war itself.Kelly McMichael, in her book, Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas, takes the reader on a tour of Civil War monuments throughout the state and in doing so tells the story of each monument and its creation. McMichael explores Texans' motivations for erecting Civil War memorials, which she views as attempts during a
- Contents:
- East Texas monuments
- North Texas monuments
- North Central Texas monuments
- Central Texas monuments
- The Panhandle and West Texas monuments
- South Texas monuments
- Southeast Texas monuments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-109) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-87611-299-8
- OCLC:
- 869736302
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