Americans Remember Their Civil War
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Americans Remember Their Civil War
By (Author) Barbara A. Gannon
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
7th July 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)
History of the Americas
973.7
Physical Properties
Hardback
192
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
510g
Description
This book provides readers with an overview of how Americans have commemorated and remembered the Civil War. * Presents events related to the commemoration of public memory of the Civil War chronologically, from 1865 to the present * Illustrated with photographs of monuments, individuals, and events related to commemoration activities, as well as selected political cartoons related to Civil War memory from popular publications * Bibliography includes both primary and secondary sources on the subject of Civil War memory
Reviews
A comprehensively compiled, clearly written, annotated bibliography that explores the evolution of our memory of [the Civil War] that helps answer the prescient question, 'Why do Americans remember it differently' * Civil War Times *
A very valuable and digestible introduction to Civil War historiography specifically and a tremendous demonstration of historiography generally. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. * Choice *
Author Bio
Barbara A. Gannon is associate professor of history, University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the author of The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic.
