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The commemoration of the American Civil War is based on the memories of the Civil War that Americans have shaped according to their political, social and cultural circumstances and needs, starting with the Gettysburg Address and the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery in 1863. Confederates, both veterans and women, were especially active in ...
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [308]
Baxter Springs Civil War Monument erected in 1886 after Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) post collected more than 7,000 signatures from former soldiers. The monument is located in the Soldier's Lot of the Baxter Springs Cemetery, and is dedicated to the 132 soldiers who died in the Battle of Baxter Springs October 8, 1863.
Brian Caldwell Pohanka was born on March 20, 1955, in Washington, D.C., to John Pohanka. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. He graduated with a history degree from Dickinson College in 1977. [ 1][citation needed]
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004), online edition pp. 94–129; the standard scholarly history; Buck, Paul H. The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 (1937) [ISBN missing] Cherry, Conrad.
Carol Reardon. Carol Reardon is an American military historian with a concentration in Civil War and Vietnam eras. She was a George Winfree Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University. [ 1] She now currently teaches at Gettysburg College.
James A. Rawley Prize (OAH) ISBN. 978-0-674-00332-3. Dewey Decimal. 973.7. LC Class. E468.9 .B58 2001. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory is a 2001 book by the American historian David W. Blight. [ 1] The book was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery of 2001.
David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years.