Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War: Twelve Leading Scholars on the Meaning of the War and its Memory (Joan Waugh, Gary W. Gallagher - CH) instrument and historical memory

and historical memory

Broomall shows

Ex-Southern soldiers became presidents of national professional societies including the American Bar Association

relates the story of Booth’s organizational efforts that resulted in the events of that fateful day

By: Rick Reeves

Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War: Twelve Leading Scholars on the Meaning of the War and its Memory (Joan Waugh, Gary W. Gallagher - CH) instrument and historical memoryComprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitmans poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grants imposing tomb, and Hollywoods long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The