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Cargando... Pickett's charge in history and memory (edición 1997)por Carol Reardon
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A pioneering study of the contested landscape of memory of an event versus the actual event, how that memory supplanted the actual events, and how that memory shaped / frame / reflected the society that created it. Far from trying to retrieve the reputation of North Carolina soldiers, Reardon explores the how Reunion shaped the political landscape of the New South, how that Reunion came through the reconciliation of soldiers around honor, valor, and virtue, and how North Carolina soldiers themselves defended that honor, valor, and virtue against the misleading statements of Virginia Confederate Veteran groups. Memory studies, how a people remember their history, are a worthy addition to the study of history. Not only is this what history is all about but it is why historians get excited about the profession. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesCivil War America (1997)
If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses. Why, then, is it Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--and not, for example, Richardson's Charge at Antietam or Humphreys's Assault at Fredericksburg--that looms so large in the popular imagination? As this innovative study reveals, by examining the events of 3 July 1863 through the selective and evocative lens of 'memory' we can learn much about why Pickett's Charge endures so strongly in the American imagination. Over the years, soldiers, journalists, veterans, politicians, orators, artists, poets, and educators, Northerners and Southerners alike, shaped, revised, and even sacrificed the 'history' of the charge to create 'memories' that met ever-shifting needs and deeply felt values. Reardon shows that the story told today of Pickett's Charge is really an amalgam of history and memory. The evolution of that mix, she concludes, tells us much about how we come to understand our nation's past. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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