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Civil War and Pop Culture: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives From the Historians of Emerging Civil War
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Historical reenactments.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Motion pictures and the war.
- United States--In popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC 2023
- Summary:
- The American Civil War left indelible marks on America's imagination, collectively and as individuals.In the century and a half since the war, musicians have written songs, writers have crafted histories and literature, and filmmakers recreated scenes from the battlefield. Beyond popular media, the battle rages on during sporting events where Civil War-inspired mascots carry on old traditions. The war erupts on tabletops and computer screens as gamers fight the old fights. Elsewhere, men and women dress in uniforms and home-spun clothes to don the mantel of people long gone.Central to "history" is the idea of "story." Civil War history remains full of stories. They inspire us, they inform us, they educate us, they entertain us. We all have our favorite books, movies, and songs. We all marvel at the spectacle of a reenactment--and flinch with startled delight when the cannons fire.But those stories can fool us, too. Entertainments can seduce us into forgetting the actual history in favor of a more romanticized version or whitewashed memory.The Civil War and Pop Culture: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War explores some of the ways people have imagined and re-imaged the war, at the tension between history and art, and how those visions have left lasting marks on American culture. This collection of essays brings together the best scholarship from Emerging Civil War's blog, symposia, and podcast--all of it revised and updated--coupled with original piece, designed to shed new light and insight on some of the most entertaining, nostalgic, and evocative connections we have to the war.
- Contents:
- Photographing pop culture / Chris Heisey
- Nineteenth-century social media : Civil War photography was 150 years ahead of the game / Garry A. Adelman
- The Confederate flag in popular culture / John M. Coski
- The gray ghost on TV made me a civil warrior / Stephen Davis
- Telling history vs. Making art / Chris Mackowski
- The Civil War in pop culture birth of a (lost cause) nation / Sheritta Bitikofer
- A fun Civil War movie : the general / Dwight S. Hughes
- Gone with the wind : some thoughts / Sarah Kay Bierle
- Violence and forgetting in the crater / Kevin M. Levin
- Glory : rediscovering the USCT in popular culture / Steward Henderson
- Reconsidering Gettysburg / Tom McMillen
- A conversation with Gettysburg actor Patrick Gorman (Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood) / Frank Jastrzembski
- The Gettysburg soundtrack / Dan Welch
- The 2nd South Carolina String Band : the popular music of the Civil War / Chris Mackowski
- Driving Dixie down / Patrick Vecchio
- Steve Earle's "Ben McCulloch" / Jon-Erik Gilot
- Steve Earle, "Dixieland," and the irresistible charm of Buster Kilrain / Chris Mackowski
- Dwight Yoakam sings "Dixie" / Chris Mackowski
- Hurrah for homespun! / Sherrita Bitikofer
- "I heard the bells on Christmas Day . . ." / Meg Groeling
- The Civil War in surprising places : the pop culture delights of Emily Dickinson's poetry / Cecily Nelson Zander
- Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, and their continued influence / Ashley Webb
- The Civil War in pop culture : the book I threw (and then picked back up again) / Sarah Kay Bierle
- Andersonville offers wonderful writing amidst horrific suffering / Chris Mackowski
- Richard Adams, author of Traveller, dies at 96 / Chris Mackowski
- A beautiful, despairing journey with a coal-black horse / Chris Mackowski
- The delicious "if" : MacKinlay Kantor's If the South had won the Civil War and alternative history / Stephen Davis
- Holiday village reenactments and reflections / Neil Chatelain
- Civil War wargaming / Scott Mingus Sr.
- Gaming the Civil War / Sean Michael Chick
- Ready, aim, click! : a look at the Civil War through video games / Tyler McGraw
- Battlefield to football field : Civil War ties to college football / Christopher Kolakowski
- Re-creating war in peaceful fields : catharsis through reenacting / Derek D. Maxfield
- The Civil War art boom (and bust) / Richard Heisler
- The stream of American history / Chris Mackowski
- What if there were no Civil War epics? / Sarah Kay Bierle.
- Notes:
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- ISBN:
- 9781611216363
- 1611216362
- OCLC:
- 1430658148
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