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366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated |
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Includes index. |
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Introduction: no deed but memory / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Pt. 1. Varieties of memory in the old South. Memory and the making of a southern citizenry: Georgia artisans in the early republic / Michele Gillespie ; African, American, and Virginian: the shaping of Black memory in antebellum Virginia, 1790-1860 / Gregg D. Kimball -- Pt. 2. Finding meaning in history during the Confederacy and Reconstruction. Seventy-six and sixty-one: Confederates remember the American Revolution / Anne Sarah Rubin ; Celebrating freedom: Emancipation Day celebrations and African American memory in the early Reconstruction South / Kathleen Clark -- Pt. 3. The past in the new South. Landmarks of power: building a southern past in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, 1885-1915 / Catherine W. Bishir ; Redeeming southern memory: the Negro race history, 1874-1915 / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp ; The talk of the county: revisiting accusation, murder, and Mississippi, 1895 / John Howard -- Pt. 4. Memory and place in the modern South. Rich and tender remembering: elite White women and an aesthetic sense of place in Charleston, 1920s and 1930s / Stephanie E. Yuhl ; To keep the spirit of mountain culture alive: tourism and historical memory in the southern highlands / C. Brenden Martin ; Le reveil de la Louisiane: memory and Acadian identity, 1920-1960 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; We run the Alamo, and you don't: Alamo battles of ethnicity and gender / Holly Beachley Brear ; Under the rope: lynching and memory in Laurens County, South Carolina / Bruce E. Baker -- Epilogue: Southerners don't lie; they just remember big / David W. Blight. |
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Presents perspectives on how American southerners across two centuries have interpreted their past. Thirteen contributors explore the workings of historical memory among groups as diverse as white artisans in early-19th-century Georgia and African American authors in the late 19th century. |
ISBN |
0807825727 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780807825723 (hardback) |
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9780807848869 (paperback) |
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0807848867 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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