The memory of the Civil War in American culture
By: edited by Alice Fahs & Joan Waugh.
Contributors: Fahs, Alice.; Waugh, Joan.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh; title: Ulysses S. Grant, historian / Joan Waugh; title: Shaping public memory of the Civil War : Robert E. Lee, Jubal A. Early, and Douglas Southall Freeman / Gary W. Gallagher; title: Long-legged Yankee lies : the Southern textbook crusade / James M. McPherson; title: Remembering the Civil War in children's literature of the 1880s and 1890s / Alice Fahs; title: Decoration days : the origins of Memorial Day in North and South / David W. Blight; title: The monumental legacy of Calhoun / Thomas J. Brown; title: Is the war ended? : Anna Dickinson and the election of 1872 / J. Matthew Gallman; title: The election of 1896 and the restructuring of Civil War memory / Patrick J. Kelly; title: You can't change history by moving a rock : gender, race, and the cultural politics of Confederate memorialization / LeeAnn Whites; title: War, cold war, civil rights : the Civil War Centennial in context, 1960-1965 / Jon Wiener; title: Epilogue : the geography of memory / Stuart McConnell.