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Memorializing the Civil War Around America


Memorializing the Civil War Around America | DocsTeach

Students will place the statues, monuments, and memorials in the appropriate location where they were erected and analyze how the North and South memorialized ...

Memorializing the Civil War Around America | DocsTeach

This sculpture depicts an allegorical angel figure representing Glory and a dying Confederate soldier. The dying soldier holds a battle flag, while the angel ...

Commemoration of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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 ...

Memory and commemoration of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction

In the South, particularly, human ingenuity has been put to it to explain on its war monuments, the Confederacy. Of course, the plain truth of the matter would ...

Memorialization of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause - Arlington ...

In the years following the Civil War, Robert E. Lee became one of the most memorialized figures of the former Confederacy.

10 Facts: Civil War Battlefield Monuments, Markers, and Tablets

10 Facts: Civil War Battlefield Monuments, Markers, and Tablets ; Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park Douglas Ullman ; Monument at Bloody Angle, ...

Civil War Memorials: Remembering and Forgetting

By every application of literature and art, we must show to the coming ages that with us, at least, there dwells no sense of guilt.” The tone ...

Search For Monuments - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

Search For Monuments · Battery "I", 1st Reg. · Hazen Brigade cemetery markers at Stones River National Battlefield, April 2004 · 25th Indiana ...

Remembering the Civil War | DPLA

Find out how the Civil War has been memorialized in both the North and the South since the conflict ended in 1865. Through veterans organizations, memorials and ...

Confederate Memorial - Arlington National Cemetery

The history of the Confederate Memorial embodies the complex and contested legacy of the Civil War at Arlington National Cemetery, and in American culture ...

Monuments and Memorialization: A Resource Guide - Ford's Theatre

Civil War and Confederate monuments are at the center of debate in 2020. As a site of national memory and political violence, Ford's offers ...

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America - UNC Press

Brown provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that ...

Honoring the Fallen: Among the First Monuments to the Civil War

In the Gettysburg Address, even as he dedicated one of the first memorials to the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln spoke about how no words or monuments could ...

Civil War Memory and Monuments to White Supremacy with Art ...

His landmark book reveals how African American soldiers were largely left off public monuments after the Civil War, in favor of sites dedicated to white leaders ...

Civil War Monuments | C-SPAN.org

THE CIVIL WAR MONUMENT IS THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE WAR MEMORIAL IN THE UNITED STATES AS A CULTURAL FORM. THERE ARE FAIR -- THERE ARE VERY FEW ...

American Civil War Monuments - School of English

Those debates have continued ever since. Citizens from across the United States and beyond have struggled to find adequate ways of remembering the war's ...

To Love Confederate Monuments and Civil Rights

Four Spirits Memorial, Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama. And what's replacing it? The memorialization of the Beloved Community. Across the South ...

The Surprising Reason Why So Many Civil War Memorials Look ...

Statues to those who fought for the Confederacy have been brought down in numerous cities by protesters or officials, while other people have ...

Civil War Memorial Grove - California State Capitol Museum

The Civil War Memorial Grove pays tribute to the thousands of men who lost their lives in the American Civil War.

But What of Union Civil War Monuments?: The Shortcomings of ...

Because the Fitchburg Soldiers' Monument represents an anomaly of Union Civil War commemoration, it also exposes an intentional forgetting in ...