The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture(English, Paperback, unknown)

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The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807855723 (ISBN 10) and 9780807855720 (ISBN 13).

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. The essays move among a variety of cultural and political arenas - from public monuments to political campaigns to children's literature - in order to reveal important changes in how the memory of the Civil War has been employed in American life. Setting the politics of Civil War memory within a wide social and cultural landscape, this volume recovers not only the meanings of the war in various eras, but also the specific processes by which those meanings have been created. By recounting the battles over the memory of the war during the last 140 years, the contributors offer important insights about our identities as individuals and as a nation.