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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Civil War America (Series)
Other Authors: Fahs, Alice
Waugh, Joan
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004], ©2004.
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Historiography.
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Physical Description:286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.