Remixing the Civil War
Subtitle: meditations on the sesquicentennial
By: edited by Thomas J. Brown
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781421402505; 9781421402512
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Memorials; Literature and the war; Art and the war; Centennial celebrations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the undead war / Thomas J. Brown; title: The Lincoln-Obama moment / C. Wyatt Evans; title: The Confederate Battle flag and the desertion of the lost cause tradition / Thomas J. Brown; title: Celebrating freedom: Juneteenth and the emancipation festival tradition / Mitch Kachun; title: The Civil War and contemporary southern literature / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.; title: Lincoln and the Civil War in twenty-first-century photography / Elizabeth Young; title: Reenactment and relic: the Civil War in contemporary art / Gerard Brown; title: African American artists interpret the Civil War in a post-soul age / W. Fitzhugh Brundage; title: Afterword: war/memory/history: toward a remixed understanding / Kirk Savage.