Author: James Ford Rhodes
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
Author: James Ford Rhodes
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Civil War Memories
Author: Robert J. Cook
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Why has the Civil War continued to influence American life so profoundly? Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American Studies At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts the construction of four dominant narratives by the ordinary men and women, as well as the statesmen and generals, who lived through the struggle and its tumultuous aftermath. Part One explains why the Yankee victors’ memory of the “War of the Rebellion” drove political conflict into the 1890s, then waned with the passing of the soldiers who had saved the republic. It also touches on the leading role southern white women played in the development of the racially segregated South’s “Lost Cause”; explores why, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of Americans had embraced a powerful reconciliatory memory of the Civil War; and details the failed efforts to connect an emancipationist reading of the conflict to the fading cause of civil rights. Part Two demonstrates the Civil War’s capacity to thrill twentieth-century Americans in movies such as The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind. It also reveals the war’s vital connection to the black freedom struggle in the modern era. Finally, Cook argues that the massacre of African American parishioners in Charleston in June 2015 highlighted the continuing relevance of the Civil War by triggering intense nationwide controversy over the place of Confederate symbols in the United States. Written in vigorous prose for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern America, Civil War Memories is required reading for informed Americans today.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Why has the Civil War continued to influence American life so profoundly? Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American Studies At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts the construction of four dominant narratives by the ordinary men and women, as well as the statesmen and generals, who lived through the struggle and its tumultuous aftermath. Part One explains why the Yankee victors’ memory of the “War of the Rebellion” drove political conflict into the 1890s, then waned with the passing of the soldiers who had saved the republic. It also touches on the leading role southern white women played in the development of the racially segregated South’s “Lost Cause”; explores why, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of Americans had embraced a powerful reconciliatory memory of the Civil War; and details the failed efforts to connect an emancipationist reading of the conflict to the fading cause of civil rights. Part Two demonstrates the Civil War’s capacity to thrill twentieth-century Americans in movies such as The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind. It also reveals the war’s vital connection to the black freedom struggle in the modern era. Finally, Cook argues that the massacre of African American parishioners in Charleston in June 2015 highlighted the continuing relevance of the Civil War by triggering intense nationwide controversy over the place of Confederate symbols in the United States. Written in vigorous prose for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern America, Civil War Memories is required reading for informed Americans today.
Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865
Author: Francis Warrington Dawson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War
Author: Frank Alexander Montgomery
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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General Lee
Author: Walter Herron Taylor
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Remembering the Civil War
Author: Caroline E. Janney
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
A Woman's Civil War
Author: Cornelia Peake McDonald
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299132644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Cornelia Peake McDonald kept a diary during the Civil War (1861- 1865) at her husband's request, but some entries were written between the lines of printed books due to a shortage of paper and other entries were lost. In 1875, she assembled her scattered notes and records of the war period into a blank book to leave to her children. The diary entries describe civilian life in Winchester, Va., occupation by Confederate troops prior to the 1st Manassas, her husband's war experiences, the Valley campaigns and occupation of Winchester and her home by Union troops, the death of her baby girl, the family's "refugee life" in Lexington, reports of battles elsewhere, and news of family and friends in the army.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299132644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Cornelia Peake McDonald kept a diary during the Civil War (1861- 1865) at her husband's request, but some entries were written between the lines of printed books due to a shortage of paper and other entries were lost. In 1875, she assembled her scattered notes and records of the war period into a blank book to leave to her children. The diary entries describe civilian life in Winchester, Va., occupation by Confederate troops prior to the 1st Manassas, her husband's war experiences, the Valley campaigns and occupation of Winchester and her home by Union troops, the death of her baby girl, the family's "refugee life" in Lexington, reports of battles elsewhere, and news of family and friends in the army.
Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment
Author: John Gregory Bishop Adams
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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REMINISCENCES OF THE BOYS IN GRAY,
Author: MAMIE. YEARY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033027059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033027059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops
Author: Susie King Taylor
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Publisher:
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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