Southern Palm, Northern Pine

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
External Resistance ◽  
Labor Party ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
War Memories ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Labor Radicalism

This chapter examines how Civil War memories anchored farmer-labor radicalism during the 1870s and 1880s. The Greenback-Labor Party in particular used wartime tropes to submit that the popular commemoration of the war, as either a North-South or Black-white axis, was fatal to class and trade organization. Instead, party members advocated a “class reconciliation” of workingmen across both sections. Although such a reconciliation was thwarted by internal contradictions and external resistance, Greenback politics offered discrete opportunities for interracial remembrance after the decline of Reconstruction, with veterans bridging out of major parties and toward reformist and revolutionary politics.

Rupturing the Silences: Intergenerational Construction of Salvadoran Immigrant War Necronarratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Ester N. Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The State ◽  
Central American ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
War Memories ◽  
Salvadoran Civil War ◽  
War Stories ◽  
The U.S

Abstract As the children of wartime immigrants from El Salvador become adults, they must grapple with the role violence played—and continues to play—in Salvadoran society. Second-generation Salvadorans interpret their relatives’ stories of war, death, and violence through a lens that prioritizes lessons gained over traumatization. Thus, immigrant parents’ casual discussions about their experiences during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992) become what this article calls necronarratives: stories pieced together from memories based on foiling death and violence generated through state necropolitics. Youth interpret inherited memories through a lens of survival, resilience, and healing. Necropolitics refers to the ability of the state to legislate and draw policies that determine who lives and who dies. Although scholars have noted that high levels of war-related trauma among Salvadoran immigrants cause them to remain silent about those experiences, my research reveals that children of these immigrants collect and construct narratives using the memory fragments shared during casual conversations with their relatives. Drawing from 20 semi-structured interviews with U.S. Salvadorans, this paper shows that U.S. Salvadorans construct narratives out of their family’s war memories in order to locate affirming qualities of the Salvadoran experience such as surviving a war, achieving migration, and building a life in a new country. Contrary to past indications that Central American migrants live in silence about their national origins in order to avoid discrimination in the U.S. and to avoid traumatizing their children, this study on second-generation Salvadoran adults describes the ethnic roots information families do share through war stories. The Salvadoran case shows youth actively engage with necronarratives as they come of age to adulthood to yield lessons about how their national origins and ethnic heritages shape their senses of belonging and exclusion within U.S. society.

The Blue and the Gray and the Red

2021 ◽  
pp. 180-216
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Absolute Property ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Socialism ◽  
War Memories ◽  
Socialist Party Of America

This chapter analyzes how the Socialist Party of America invoked the “Second American Revolution” to advocate left nationalism, incremental reform, and Christian socialism, or to validate calls for revolution or international industrial emancipation. Pairing the class struggle with abolitionism tied socialism to domestic tradition and rendered the Civil War part of a revolutionary struggle. The Industrial Workers of the World, meanwhile, claimed one of the most contentious legacies of the abolitionists: the defiance of absolute property rights. However, the Red Scare helped undermine the socialist narrative of the war for the Union as a working-class war. Political repression reinforced the decline of revolutionary Civil War memories, which in turn yielded before rising strains of conservative industrial patriotism.

Soldier Girl: The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-176
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bacon Custer ◽  
Arlene Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Memories

scholarly journals Civil War Memories

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Memories

scholarly journals Post-nationalism and Recollecting the Nigerian Civil War Memories through Hero Beer Brands Marketing in Igboland, Southeast Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Obinna U. Muoh ◽  
◽  
Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
War Memories ◽  
Ethnic Nationality ◽  
Nigerian Civil War

Since the failed attempt at secession from Nigeria in 1970, after a 30-month civil war, the Igbo ethnic nationality—who constituted the majority of the defunct Biafra Republic, have sought avenues to (re)create the memories of the short-lived country.In the political space, they attempted establishing Ohaneze Ndigbo—as an umbrella socio-political organization for recreating and projecting the Igbo agenda. This, to a large extent, has not achieved the desired objectives. Not surprisingly, militia groups have sprung up since 1999 when an Igbo failed to secure Presidential race ticket to agitate the actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra. These groups include Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), and recently the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). However, pop circle provided the much needed social space for Biafra nostalgic displays. In 2012, Hero Beer advert better known as O Mpa, a coined greeting style by Onitsha people for great achievers with reference to Ojukwu father figure in the Biafran struggle was launched. This study examines the nexus between beer advertorials and ethnic identity using the Igbo example. It argues that the advertorials successfully permeated into the psychology of Igbo beer drinkers, who attached ethnic connections to them and appropriated them as theirs, using the brands to recreate the memories of Biafran struggle of Independence from 1967-1970.

Religion in Times of War and Republic, 1642–60

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Eales
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Religious Dissent ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Personal Rule ◽  
Local Leaders

Religious debate was central to the revolutionary politics of the 1640s and 1650s. One area of disagreement between Charles I and the Long Parliament concerned the nature and structure of the English national Church: whether bishops should be abolished in line with the Calvinist reformed Churches of the continent and if the religious changes of Charles’ Personal Rule were legal. From 1640 puritan demands for religious reform led to a proliferation of modes of worship ranging from Scottish-style Presbyterianism to independent congregations headed by charismatic local leaders who generated fears of heresy. The civil war sects were so loosely organized that most did not survive the Restoration of 1660, when the re-establishment of the episcopal Church 1660 was welcomed by the Royalists. However, a powerful legacy of religious dissent allowed groups such as the Quakers and Baptists to persist and flourish.

The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer (review)

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Linda Williams Reese
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Memories
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