Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War [Hardcover]

The American Civil War left indelible marks on the country.In the century and a half since the war, Americans have remembered the war in different ways. Veterans placed monuments to commemorate their deeds on the battlefield. In doing so, they often set in stone and bronze specific images in specific places that may have conflicted with the factual historical record.Erecting monuments and memorials became a way to commemorate the past, but they also became important tools for remembering that past in particular ways. Monuments honor, but they also embody the very real tension between history and the way we remember that historywhat we now today call memory.Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the warand how those markers have impacted our understanding of it. This collection of essays brings together the best scholarship from Emerging Civil Wars blog, symposia, and podcastall of it revised and updatedcoupled with original pieces, designed to shed new light and insight on the monuments and memorials that give us some of our most iconic and powerful connections to the battlefields and the men who fought there.This collection of essays explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the warand how those markers have impacted our understanding of it. It is designed to shed new light and insight on the monuments and memorials that give us some of our most iconic and powerful connections to the battlefields and the men who fought there.This splendid and powerful collection of essays serves as a useful reminder that there is a great deal of difference between the reality of historic events and how individuals and groups remember those events and manipulate historic reality. The wide array of topics examined throughout this masterfully assembled anthologymonuments, commemoration, battlefield preservation and interprls8