How the Civil War endures in American life through literature and
culture. Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne Medal The
American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few
other events. The story of the war has been retold in countless
films, novels, poems, memoirs, plays, sculptures, and monuments.
Often remembered as an emancipatory struggle, as an attempt to
destroy slavery in America now and forever, it is also memorialized
as a fight for Southern independence; as a fratricide that divided
the national family; and as a dark, cruel conflict defined by its
brutality. What do these stories, myths, and rumors have in common,
and what do they teach us about modern America? In this fascinating
book, Cody Marrs reveals how these narratives evolved over time and
why they acquired such lasting power. Marrs addresses an eclectic
range of texts, traditions, and creators, from Walt Whitman, Abram
Ryan, and Abraham Lincoln to Margaret Mitchell, D. W. Griffith, and
W. E. B. Du Bois. He also identifies several basic plots about the
Civil War that anchor public memory and continually compete for
cultural primacy. In other words, from the perspective of American
cultural memory, there is no single Civil War. Whether they fill us
with elation or terror; whether they side with the North or the
South; whether they come from the 1860s, the 1960s, or today, these
stories all make one thing vividly clear: the Civil War is an
ongoing conflict, persisting not merely as a cultural touchstone
but as an unresolved struggle through which Americans inevitably
define themselves. A timely, evocative, and beautifully written
book, Not Even Past is essential reading for anyone interested in
the Civil War and its role in American history.
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