This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time.
Introduction
1
(4)
Alice Fahs
Joan Waugh
Ulysses S. Grant, Historian
5
(34)
Joan Waugh
Shaping Public Memory of the Civil War: Robert E. Lee, Jubal A. Early, and Douglas Southall Freeman
39
(25)
Gary W. Gallagher
Long-Legged Yankee Lies: The Southern Textbook Crusade
64
(15)
James M. McPherson
Remembering the Civil War in Children's Literature of the 1880s and 1890s
79
(15)
Alice Fahs
Decoration Days: The Origins of Memorial Day in North and South
94
(36)
David W. Blight
The Monumental Legacy of Calhoun
130
(27)
Thomas J. Brown
Is the War Ended?: Anna Dickinson and the Election of 1872
157
(23)
J. Matthew Gallman
The Election of 1896 and the Restructuring of Civil War Memory
180
(33)
Patrick J. Kelly
You Can't Change History by Moving a Rock: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Politics of Confederate Memorialization
213
(24)
LeeAnn Whites
Civil War, Cold War, Civil Rights: The Civil War Centennial in Context, 1960--1965
237
(21)
Jon Wiener
Epilogue: The Geography of Memory
258
(9)
Stuart McConnell
Contributors
267
(2)
Index
269
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