Gettysburg 1963 (eBook)

Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town

Jill Ogline Titus (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
264 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6535-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoil and the escalating struggle for Black freedom, the United States also engaged in a nationwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. Commemorative events centered on Gettysburg, site of the best-known, bloodiest, and most symbolically charged battle of the conflict. Inevitably, the centennial of Lincoln's iconic Gettysburg Address received special focus, pressed into service to help the nation understand its present and define its future--a future that would ironically include another tragic event days later with the assassination of another American president. In this fascinating work, Jill Ogline Titus uses centennial events in Gettysburg to examine the history of political, social, and community change in 1960s America. Examining the experiences of political leaders, civil rights activists, preservation-minded Civil War enthusiasts, and local residents, Titus shows how the era's deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight and ensured that white and Black Americans would define the meaning of the battle, the address, and the war in dramatically different ways.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 11 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Adams County Civil War Centennial Commission • battlefield commemoration • civil rights movement in Gettysburg • Civil War battlefield preservation • Civil War Centennial • Civil War commemoration • Civil War memory • Civil War monuments • Cold War civil rights • Cold War in Gettysburg • Cold War pageantry • commemorative landscape • Confederate memory • emancipationist memory of the Civil War • George Wallace • Gettysburg • Gettysburg 100th • Gettysburg Address • Gettysburg Centennial • Gettysburg National Military Park • historical pageantry • Lost Cause • National Park Service • Pennsylvania Gettysburg Centennial Commission • reconciliationist memory of the Civil War • Unionist memory • white reconciliation
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6535-2 / 1469665352
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6535-1 / 9781469665351