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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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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description
199 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
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Available Online
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E641 .C585 2019
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Subject(s)
United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Battlefields
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United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Monuments
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United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Museums
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United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Hospitals
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Editor
Gallagher, Gary W.
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Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew)
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Photographer
Gallagher, Will, 1968-
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History
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Summary note
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.
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ISBN
9781469649535 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
1469649535 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2018038928
OCLC
1049574891
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