The Journal of Southern History, November 1st, 2005
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Edited by Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. [x ], 286. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80785572-3; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2907-2.)
The editors of this important collection remind us that unlike other historical events, "[t ]he Civil War has never receded into the remote past in American life" (p. 1). Alternative, indeed contesting, memories of the Civil War still shape public and private debates on matters such as race, politics, symbolism, and identity. Unlike many...
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