Demon of the Lost Cause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demon of the Lost Cause write by Wesley Moody. This book was released on 2011-12-30. Demon of the Lost Cause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Prewar Years and the Early War -- Chapter 2: The Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea -- Chapter 3: The Commanding General versus the North -- Chapter 4: The War of the Memoirs -- Chapter 5: Sherman's Last Years -- Chapter 6: Sherman versus the Lost Cause -- Chapter 7: Embracing the Lost Cause -- Chapter 8: Sherman in Film -- Chapter 9: Sherman and the Modern Historians -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Demon of the Lost Cause
Demon of the Lost Cause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demon of the Lost Cause write by John Wesley Moody. This book was released on 2008. Demon of the Lost Cause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation will examine the formation of the myth that William T. Sherman laid waste to the state of Georgia in 1864, and almost single-handedly invented the concept of "total war." It will also examine how Sherman's reputation has evolved over the years from accusations of being a Southern sympathizer and traitor at the end of the Civil War to the modern image of Sherman as the destroyer of the old South. William Tecumseh Sherman was the most controversial general of the American Civil War. The modern image of Sherman is either a destructive monster who violated the laws of civilized warfare or a strategic genius who invented modern warfare. Both of these images have evolved over the years. In large part, they have been the product of Lost Cause writers trying to reinterpret the history of the war, but also the product of Union generals and politicians attempting to glorify their own place in the history of the war, men with personal grudges against the general and modern historians using Sherman to make their own arguments about contemporary society. The sources used for this dissertation were the journals, letters and memoirs of the participants. The Official Records of both the Union and Confederacy were examined as well as nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers and magazines. This dissertation will show that the modern conception of General Sherman is not the same as the historical fact, but rather a post-war creation. Individuals' agendas have created and sustained the myth of Sherman to explain defeat in the Civil War, justify later military strategy, condemn later conflicts and for personal gain. It is not enough to know that historical events as commonly understood are inaccurate; it is important to understand how and why these inaccuracies came about.
Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause
Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause write by Joe Coker. This book was released on 2007-12-14. Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1800s, Southern evangelicals believed contemporary troubles—everything from poverty to political corruption to violence between African Americans and whites—sprang from the bottles of “demon rum” regularly consumed in the South. Though temperance quickly gained support in the antebellum North, Southerners cast a skeptical eye on the movement, because of its ties with antislavery efforts. Postwar evangelicals quickly realized they had to make temperance appealing to the South by transforming the Yankee moral reform movement into something compatible with southern values and culture. In Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, Joe L. Coker examines the tactics and results of temperance reformers between 1880 and 1915. Though their denominations traditionally forbade the preaching of politics from the pulpit, an outgrowth of evangelical fervor led ministers and their congregations to sound the call for prohibition. Determined to save the South from the evils of alcohol, they played on southern cultural attitudes about politics, race, women, and honor to communicate their message. The evangelicals were successful in their approach, negotiating such political obstacles as public disapproval the church’s role in politics and vehement opposition to prohibition voiced by Jefferson Davis. The evangelical community successfully convinced the public that cheap liquor in the hands of African American “beasts” and drunkard husbands posed a serious threat to white women. Eventually, the code of honor that depended upon alcohol-centered hospitality and camaraderie was redefined to favor those who lived as Christians and supported the prohibition movement. Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause is the first comprehensive survey of temperance in the South. By tailoring the prohibition message to the unique context of the American South, southern evangelicals transformed the region into a hotbed of temperance activity, leading the national prohibition movement.
Lost Cause
Lost Cause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Cause write by Z. J. Cannon. This book was released on 2023-01-06. Lost Cause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humanity finally has a hero who can stand up to Hell. It's my job to stop her. Guess that makes me the villain. Ever since Heaven lost the war, the forces of Hell have treated my city as their playground. One human is finally pushing back. With the power of a saint's relic behind her, she's bringing light to Jarvis's dark streets, one dead demon at a time. But not every demon is one of the bad guys. Some of us just want to live our lives in peace. And if I don't stand up for the ones who can't defend themselves... well, who else is going to care what happens to a bunch of monsters? I wish I'd never asked. Because now none other than Vekaniel is sitting in my office, offering to join forces to protect the good demons of the city. Yep, that's right: the scary-powerful fallen angel. My former ally in the war against Heaven. The one I went up against a few months back, and barely came out alive. She swears she's on the straight and narrow now. We'll see about that. But the fact is, I can't win this alone. I need help. The kind only a dangerous, devious, and maybe-reformed fallen angel can give.
This War Ain't Over
This War Ain't Over - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This War Ain't Over write by Nina Silber. This book was released on 2018-11-02. This War Ain't Over available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's "A Lincoln Portrait," it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime. At the heart of this book is an examination of how historical memory offers people a means of understanding and defining themselves in the present. Silber reveals how, during a moment of enormous national turmoil, the events and personages of the Civil War provided a framework for reassessing national identity, class conflict, and racial and ethnic division. The New Deal era may have been the first time Civil War memory loomed so large for the nation as a whole, but, as the present moment suggests, it was hardly the last.
