Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America - 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 Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America write by Thomas J. Brown. This book was released on 2019. Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"--
Monument Wars
Monument Wars - 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 Monument Wars write by Kirk Savage. This book was released on 2011-07-11. Monument Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves - 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 Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves write by Kirk Savage. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
North Carolina Civil War Monuments
North Carolina Civil War Monuments - 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 North Carolina Civil War Monuments write by Douglas J. Butler. This book was released on 2013-05-11. North Carolina Civil War Monuments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition expanded, and by the early twentieth century, the Confederate dead and surviving veterans, although defeated in battle, ranked among the world's most commemorated troops. This memorialization, described in North Carolina Civil War Monuments, evolved through a challenging and contentious process accomplished over decades. Prompted by the need to rebury wartime dead, memorialization, led by women, first expressed regional grief and mourning then expanded into a vital aspect of Southern memory. In North Carolina, 109 Civil War monuments--101 honoring Confederate troops and eight commemorating Union forces--were raised prior to the Civil War centennial. Photographs showcase each memorial while committee records, legal documents, and contemporaneous accounts are used to detail the difficult process through which these monuments were erected. Their design, location, and funding reflect not only the period's sculptural and cultural milieu but also reveal one state's evolving grief and the forging of public memory.
Burying the Dead but Not the Past
Burying the Dead but Not the Past - 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 Burying the Dead but Not the Past write by Caroline E. Janney. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Burying the Dead but Not the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
