Civil War places : seeing the conflict through the eyes of its leading historians / edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman ; photographs by Will Gallagher.

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English
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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199 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm

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    Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed historians of the Civil War select a single meaningful place related to the war and narrate its significance. Included here are meditations on a wide assortment of places--Devil's Den at Gettysburg, Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, the statue of William T. Sherman in New York's Central Park, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the McLean House in Appomattox, and more. Paired with a contemporary photograph commissioned specifically for this book, each essay offers an unusual and accessible glimpse into how historians think about their subjects. -- Dust jacket flap.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The church in the maelstrom / Stephen Berry
    • My cave life in hospital / Sarah E. Gardner
    • The triangular field and devil's den / J. Matthew Gallman
    • Camp Allegheny / A. Wilson Greene
    • Bridge to the past / Caroline E. Janney
    • An unknown grave / Peter S. Carmichael
    • Boundaries of memory at the Sand Creek site / Ari Kelman
    • Ceding the high ground of hindsight / Aaron Sheehan-Dean
    • Hidden in plain sight: the Los Angeles National Cemetery / Joan Waugh
    • A "rightful place": the graves of George and Lasalle Pickett, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia / Lesley J. Gordon
    • Black lives at Arlington National Cemetery: from slavery to segregation / William A. Blair
    • At Nathaniel Bowditch's grave / Frances M. Clarke
    • Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall: a place for quiet reflection / Carol Reardon
    • Sherman at the Plaza / Stephen Cushman
    • Memory's past and future: Harvard's Memorial Hall / Drew Gilpin Faust
    • In the thickets of history and memory: using Charlottesville's Confederate memorial landscape / Gary W. Gallagher
    • The people for whom he saved the union: the Lincoln Memorial / Judith Giesberg
    • The Emancipation Oak: commemorating freedom, family, and intellectual pursuit / Brenda E. Stevenson
    • Forging the Confederacy / Edward L. Ayers
    • Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass's personal Civil War museum for a public man / David W. Blight
    • Surrender grounds: the McLean house at Appomattox / Elizabeth R. Varon
    • The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood: John Brown at the Charles Town court house / Stephen D. Engle
    • My soldiers' home / James Marten
    • The Green-Meldrim house / Jacqueline Jones
    • A room of his own / Catherine Clinton
    • Thoughts about shooting the images in Civil War places / Will Gallagher.
    ISBN
    • 9781469649535 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    • 1469649535 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2018038928
    OCLC
    1049574891
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