The memory of the Civil War in American culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alice Fahs & Joan Waugh

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7/072/073
• Soggetto topico: Civil war
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Historiography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FahsAlice WaughJoan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The memory of the Civil War in American culture
• ISBN: 0-8078-7581-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451965303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Civil War America.