Still Fighting the Civil War
eBook - ePub

Still Fighting the Civil War

The American South and Southern History

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Still Fighting the Civil War

The American South and Southern History

About this book

In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's residents and in the national news headlines of battle flags, racial injustice, and religious conflicts. Goldfield candidly discusses how and why white southern men fashioned the myths of the Lost Cause and Redemption out of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and how they shaped a religion to canonize the heroes and deify the events of those fateful years. He also recounts how groups of blacks and white women eventually crafted a different, more inclusive version of southern history and how that new vision competed with more traditional perspectives.The battle for southern history, and for the South, continues—in museums, public spaces, books, state legislatures, and the minds of southerners. Given the region's growing economic power and political influence, understanding this war takes on national significance. Through an analysis of ideas of history and memory, religion, race, and gender, Still Fighting the Civil War provides us with a better understanding of the South and one another.

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Information

Publisher
LSU Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780807152171
Edition
2

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Preface to the Updated Edition
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. The Past Is
  11. 2. God-Haunted
  12. 3. Culture Protestants
  13. 4. Pretty Women
  14. 5. Lady Insurrectionists
  15. 6. A Woman’s Movement
  16. 7. Colors
  17. 8. Sharings
  18. 9. New Battlegrounds, Old Strategies
  19. 10. Measures
  20. 11. Histories
  21. 12. The Real War
  22. Notes
  23. Index