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 ...

Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed or renamed. More than 2,000 Confederate symbols, including 685 ...

The tragedy of America’s Civil War memory is that it is impossible to imagine that sublime poem etched into the floor of the Yale memorial in 1915. This essay is adapted from David Blight’s ...

In fact, It would be easier to forget that the Civil War’s legacy has always been contentious. But the war and its symbols have always held different meanings for different groups, and ...

This essay was adapted from Kevin M. Levin’s newsletter, Civil War Memory. Subscribe here. On Monday night, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty, in North ...

If only national memory were so easily resolved. ... as of April 2023, nearly 500 Confederate symbols have been ... which romanticized the pre–Civil War South and denied the horrors of ...

“The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory,” by Gaines M. Foster; LSU Press; 261 pages. It has been nearly 160 years since Gen. Robert E. Lee signed the terms of surrender at a ...