Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory (review)

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-519
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Helbich
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory

Graffiti Heritage: Civil War Memory in Virginia

2012 ◽  
pp. 139-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Moreau ◽  
Derek H. Alderman
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory

The Red Flag of Emancipation

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory ◽  
The World ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Socialist Party Of America

This chapter considers the production of Civil War memory among Gilded Age socialists and anarchists. These radicals and revolutionaries built on the redistributionist claims of abolitionists and freedpeople, and exceeded those of trade unionists, by challenging not only the legitimacy of slave property or plantations but also the mechanisms of production and property rights. Late nineteenth-century socialists came to see themselves as a postscript to abolitionism, and their “red memory” operated through anarchist networks, militias, and workers’ parties. Most sought an end to partisan debates over loyalty and section, which hindered working-class organization, and used Civil War memory to espouse internationalism, prefiguring the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World.

The Great War and Civil War Memory

2019 ◽  
pp. 232-282
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Civil War Memory ◽  
Lincoln Memorial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War ◽  
War Commemoration

This chapter examines the influence of Civil War commemoration on World War I commemoration and the impact of World War I on Civil War commemoration. The war limited recognition that the Lincoln Memorial climaxed development of the National Mall with less militarism than recent Lincoln statues suggested. Some sponsors of World War I monuments rejected Civil War precedents, such as those who projected useful memorials, but an army of doughboy statues built on Civil War precedents. The proliferation of male nudes was one example. The crisis of World War I caused some memorial promoters to treat the Civil War as a foreshadowing and some memorial promoters to treat the Civil War as a refuge from modernity. The Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain illustrated both tendencies and the displacement of public monuments by cinema in the 1930s.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
Communist Party Usa ◽  
The Cold War

The epilogue appraises the state of radical labor and Civil War memory surrounding the war’s semisesquicentennial. What Eric Hobsbawm terms “the patriotism of the Left,” including the cultural symbols of the Civil War era, was critical to political fights against right-wing nationalism and anti-liberalism. Emancipationist memory was especially central to the political culture of the Communist Party USA, as well as to the broader “Americanization” movement within the Popular Front. However, the “Good War” against fascism provided powerful nationalist mythologies surrounding “Victory Culture” that were less bound by class. Further, the Cold War--and a mass culture of domestic anti-communism--scuttled the revolutionary memory of the Civil War as a precursor to broader class emancipation.

Camp Nelson and Kentucky’s Civil War Memory

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
W. Stephen McBride
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory

Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 979
Author(s):  
Martin W. Öfele ◽  
Christian B. Keller
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory

scholarly journals Neo-Confederates take their stand: Southern Agrarians and the Civil War

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall Munro
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lost Cause ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Allen Tate ◽  
Temporal Shape ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Civil War Memory

Ninety years ago, a group of twelve Southern intellectuals published I’ll Take My Stand, a manifesto dedicated to reviving Southern values and ideals in direct opposition to Northern industrialism and philosophy. Ever since 1930, the Southern Agrarians have been frequently presented as critics of modern life, but this kind of focus overshadows another way in which they were described in those early days: as neo-Confederates. The Agrarians’ ongoing and wide-ranging engagement with the Civil War ‐ especially in the work of Allen Tate and Donald Davidson ‐ was, I argue, hugely significant for the planning and writing of the manifesto. Examining the ways in which these writers used the war also shows how they sought to retard modernist progress, embrace failure as an element of Lost Cause ideology, and distort the temporal shape of Civil War memory. Furthermore, I show here how bound up in the manifesto and related writing by its contributors is a commitment to white supremacy and violence ‐ a kind of fanatical dedication that speaks to events in the United States today.

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