Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States Since 1865

by Robert Cook

Why has the Civil War continued to influence American life so profoundly?

Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American Studies

At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421423499
• ISBN13: 9781421423494
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"