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The concepts of history and memory represent two attitudes toward the past, two streams of historical consciousness that must at some point flow together. History -- what trained historians do ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Family memories of the Civil War, from The Silent Civil War. Generations are important to charting how memory is passed down. In Irish, there is a richness to the word glúin, literally a knee or ...
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