Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields

by Edward Tabor Linenthal

Book Overview

Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most
famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical
preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where
different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished
national stories and to argue about the meaning of war, the importance
of martial sacrifice, and the significance of preserving the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252061713
• ISBN13: 9780252061714
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"