| Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation Contributor(s): Janney, Caroline E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469629895 ISBN-13: 9781469629896 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $30.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - 19th Century - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 973.71 |
| LCCN: 2012046988 |
| Series: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.54 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates--crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, and most especially their respective women's organizations, clung tenaciously to their own causes well into the twentieth century. Janney explores the subtle yet important differences between reunion and reconciliation and argues that the Unionist and Emancipationist memories of the war never completely gave way to the story Confederates told. She challenges the idea that white northerners and southerners salved their war wounds through shared ideas about race and shows that debates about slavery often proved to be among the most powerful obstacles to reconciliation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Janney, Caroline E.: - Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia, and author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. |