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Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Caroline E. Janney
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As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation - men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates - crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, and most especially their respective women's organizations, clung tenaciously ... Read more
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation - men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates - crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, and most especially their respective women's organizations, clung tenaciously ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629896
SKU
V9781469629896
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About Caroline E. Janney
Caroline E. Janney is associate professor of history at Purdue University, USA and author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.
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