The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture.(Book Review)

From: Southern Cultures | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh | Copyright information

The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture Edited by Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh University of North Carolina Press, 2004 286 pp. Cloth $59-95; paper $19.95

Soon after the Civil War--and long before the current interest in "historical memory"--Americans understood that the way they remembered the Civil War would define their nation. For nearly a century and a half, commemoration of the Civil War has served as a sort of national Rorschach test, exposing divisions of re...

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