Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina
- ISBN-10
- 1469620960
- ISBN-13
- 9781469620961
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-17
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Thomas J. Brown
Description
In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown reveals a dynamic pattern of contestation and change. He highlights transformations of gender norms and establishes a fresh perspective on race in Civil War remembrance by emphasizing the fluidity of racial identity within the politics of white supremacy. Despite the conservative ideology that connects these sites, Brown argues that the Confederate canon of memory has adapted to address varied challenges of modernity from the war's end to the present, when enthusiasts turn to fantasy to renew a faded myth while children of the civil rights era look for a usable Confederate past. In surveying a rich, controversial, and sometimes even comical cultural landscape, Brown illuminates the workings of collective memory sustained by engagement with the particularity of place.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2018-02
- 376 pages
- Paperback
- Civil War America (Hardcover)
Similar books
-
American Civil War Artillery 1861–65 (2): Heavy Artillery
By Philip KatcherThe Confederates did not differentiate types of artillery and those that became known as Heavy Artillery did so through informal association rather than formal designation. This book details the development and usage of the big guns.
-
Like a River: A Civil War Novel
By Kathy Cannon WiechmanWinner of the Grateful American Book Prize This moving story of two young Union soldiers “joins other great middle grade novels about the Civil War”—an “excellent” read “for all fans of historical fiction who enjoy a hint of ...
-
Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
By Thomas J. BrownAs federal marshal in Boston he had cooperated in the fiercely contested rendition of Thomas Sims, a runaway returned to Georgia with the assistance of U.S. Marines. Massachusetts governor Curtis Guild began his dedicatory remarks with ...
-
Rebellion: Personal Reminiscences of Colonel Le Grand B. Cannon (Abridged, Annotated)
By Le Grand B. CannonColonel Cannon's memoir of his experiences in the American Civil War was never meant for a public audience.
-
The Mechanical Fuze and the Advance of Artillery in the Civil War
By Jr., Edward B. McCaulThe rifled artillery used during the Civil War created the need for a new and more reliable type of artillery fuze to light powder charges.
-
1861: The Civil War Awakening
By Adam GoodheartAn epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 is Adam Goodheart's account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on...
-
Civil War Weapons
By Graham SmithThe book details the pistols, revolvers, carbines, rifles, longarms, artillery, swords and edged weapons used in the conflict, and reveals fascinating stories and facts about each type of weapon and the men who used them in the Civil War.
-
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
By Caroline E. Janney(Gunter, “Stith Bolling,” in Kneebone et al., Dictionary of Virginia Biography 1: 71–72.) 5 Like many other historians of the Lost Cause, I elected to end the study between 1914 and 1915. These years marked the fiftieth anniversary of ...
-
American Civil War Artillery 1861–65 (1): Field Artillery
By Philip KatcherIn battle, the introduction of the 12-pdr. Napoleon , followed closely by rifled cannon, provided a range and power previously unknown on American soil. This book details this vital cog in the war-machine of both sides.
-
Sieges in the Severn Valley During the English Civil War
By Richard IsraelThis book examines through historical and archaeological research the sieges of Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury during the First Civil War (1642-1646).