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Civil War Memories - Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865 (Paperback)
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Civil War Memories - Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865 (Paperback)
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At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the
Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of
slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of
how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten,
this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an
array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of
modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts the
construction of four dominant narratives by the ordinary men and
women, as well as the statesmen and generals, who lived through the
struggle and its tumultuous aftermath. Part One explains why the
Yankee victors' memory of the "War of the Rebellion" drove
political conflict into the 1890s, then waned with the passing of
the soldiers who had saved the republic. It also touches on the
leading role southern white women played in the development of the
racially segregated South's "Lost Cause"; explores why, by the
beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of Americans had
embraced a powerful reconciliatory memory of the Civil War; and
details the failed efforts to connect an emancipationist reading of
the conflict to the fading cause of civil rights. Part Two
demonstrates the Civil War's capacity to thrill twentieth-century
Americans in movies such as The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the
Wind. It also reveals the war's vital connection to the black
freedom struggle in the modern era. Finally, Cook argues that the
massacre of African American parishioners in Charleston in June
2015 highlighted the continuing relevance of the Civil War by
triggering intense nationwide controversy over the place of
Confederate symbols in the United States. Written in vigorous prose
for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the
relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern
America, Civil War Memories is required reading for informed
Americans today.
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