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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.
Apr 10, 2011 · In 1936, the 75th anniversary of the war, we see the first example of a new phenomenon: The Civil War reenactment, as the Battle of Bull Run was refought on the actual site, although not by...
- Coming to Terms with Monuments
- Art and Civil War Memory
- The End of The Civil War
- A Brief History of Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
- The Essays
DuBois had reason to complain about symbols honoring the Confederacy: they were everywhere in the South, and they still are. At least 1,700 schools, roads, buildings, municipalities, and monuments have been named after or dedicated to Confederates since the Civil War. Of these, about 800 are monuments: physical structures specially constructed for ...
After the Civil War, both sides took pains to craft their own narratives of the conflict: why it happened, what had happened, and what it all meant. These narratives helped the public make sense of the physical and psychological wounds inflicted by war, helping those who had lost limbs or loved ones justify their sacrifice in the service of a highe...
Scholars traditionally date the end of the Civil War to April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. Army General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In fact, the end of the war was a slow, sporadic process riddled with chaos and confusion. It took months before every soldier and sailor put down their ...
Immediately after the war’s end in 1865, southern state governments resumed many aspects of Black surveillance and policing that had characterized life under slavery, passing Black Codes that restricted the movement of Black people and punished men convicted of “vagrancy” with unpaid “apprenticeships” (essentially a return to slavery). Members of t...
The two essays in this section examine the role of art in commemorating the Civil War: how that art contributed to northern and southern narratives of the war’s causes and significance and the ways that both Black and Indigenous activists have pushed back against those narratives. The first essay, “The Lost Cause and Confederate memory,” examines h...
Not all of the region’s Civil War monuments commemorate the memory of its warriors. The imposing War Correspondents Arch on the Crampton’s Gap battlefield, dedicated in 1896, salutes the service of the reporters and artists who described the events of the war in narrative and picture.
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.
Oct 25, 2024 · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president (1860), the Southern states seceded.
The highlight of the commemoration of the war’s 50th anniversary had been the gathering of more than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans at the end of June and early July 1913, the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, in that small Pennsylvania town.
