Healing and History: Battlefields and the Problem of Civil War Memory Americans faced an overwhelming ... Boldly, he used Davis as a symbol of the “type of civilization” (national, and not ...

Of those symbols, 685 are Confederate monuments ... the challenges that researchers called the "politics of Civil War memory," citing recent name changes of two military bases as a setback ...

We need spaces of public memory that capture the full truth ... The report notes that at no point during the Civil War did any Confederate symbol come within 6 miles of the U.S. Capitol, but ...

In his new collection, “The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory,” LSU professor ... and how different groups have used it as a symbol over the past few decades, with it ...

The poem was a paean to mutual valor and a symbol of the reconciliation of ... The tragedy of America’s Civil War memory is that it is impossible to imagine that sublime poem etched into the ...

Levin’s newsletter, Civil War Memory. Subscribe here ... a group organized in 2011 to combat calls to remove Confederate symbols from public spaces, celebrated by posting a video of Hegseth ...

a way for political leaders to solidify national unity at a time when the wounds of the Civil War were still fresh. In some ways, they were right. It was intended as a symbol of reconciliation and ...

Memory, and forgetting, are at the heart of the subsequent history of the Irish Civil War and its place in the collective Irish psyche, says Conor Mulvagh The Irish Civil War did not witness mass ...