Cities of the Dead
Subtitle: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 (Civil War America)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780807828960
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; United States - Civil War; Power (Social sciences); History: American; History; History - U.S; United States - 19th Century; USA; Reconstruction (U.S. history,; United States - State & Local - South; Emancipation Day; freedom celebrations; black political mobilization; Decoration Day; Memorial Day; invented traditions; Virginia; Arlington National Cemetery; Lost Cause; reunion and reconciliation; white southern women; southern history;  African American history; Civil War; Reconstruction;; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Memorials; Political aspects; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Southern States
First sentence: When a writer for North American Review looked at the commemorative calendar of the United States in 1857, he bemoaned the lack of a unified holiday.