Books about memory and the American Civil War

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1taramarie
Mrz. 31, 2014, 9:52 am

I've heard really good reviews about Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Book by Tony Horwitz. Does anyone have recommendations for other books that discuss the American Civil War and memory?

3TLCrawford
Mrz. 31, 2014, 12:48 pm

Were are two titles. The first deals with slavery, the southern rebellion and its aftermath from the viewpoint of public historians, the people that run museums and monuments to preserve the past. The second is the result of a study done by public historians on how Americans use and remember our history.

Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory

The presence of the Past : Popular Uses of History in American Life

4ABVR
Bearbeitet: Apr. 1, 2014, 1:10 am

In addition to the four titles already listed -- all of which are well worth reading -- there's also:

Gary W. Gallagher's Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten, about Hollywood films, popular art, and the Civil War

Robert Brent Toplin's Ken Burns' The Civil War: Historians Respond, a slim volume about exactly what it says on the label

Thomas Lawrence Connelly's The Marble Man, about the secular canonization of Robert E. Lee

John M. Coski's The Confederate Battle Flag, about the most familiar, divisive visual symbol of the war. "The past is not dead; it's not even past," indeed . . .

Sharyn McCrumb's Ghost Riders and James Lee Burke's In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead are novels, but . . . they're also sharp, insightful explorations of how the popular memory of the Civil War "works" in the present-day South.