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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 Ca

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Author

Robert J. Cook

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421423494

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities