Remembering the Civil War (eBook)

Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation

Caroline E. Janney (Autor)

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2013
464 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-0707-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 to their own causes well into the twentieth century. Janney explores the subtle yet important differences between reunion and reconciliation and argues that the Unionist and Emancipationist memories of the war never completely gave way to the story Confederates told. She challenges the idea that white northerners and southerners salved their war wounds through shared ideas about race and shows that debates about slavery often proved to be among the most powerful obstacles to reconciliation.

Autor

Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
• Reihe/Serie: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
• Zusatzinfo: 21 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abraham Lincoln and Civil War memory • African American memory of the Civil War • Blue-Gray reunions • caroline janney • Civil War memorials • Civil War monuments • Civil War veterans • Emancipation • Emancipation Day celebrations • Grand Army of the Republic • Ladies' Memorial Associations • Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic • Lincoln Memorial • Lost Cause • Memorial Day • Memory of the Civil War • mourning and the Civil War • national cemeteries • national military battlefield parks • Prisoners of war • remembering slavery • reunion without reconciliation • sectional reconciliation • sectional reunion • Shaw Memorial • slavery as a cause of the Civil War • Union Cause • United Confederate Veterans • United Daughters of the Confederacy • veterans' reunions • Woman's Relief Corps • Women and the Civil War
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-0707-7 / 1469607077
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-0707-8 / 9781469607078