Civil War memories: contesting the past in the United States since 1865

Introduction

Part I. The postwar period. A fractured country and its fractured memories

The resurgent south and its lost cause

Remembering the victors' war in the Gilded Age

The rocky road to sectional reconciliation

Part II. The modern era. Distant drums in an age of global warfare

Centennial blues

Afterlife

Conclusion : the continuing Civil War.

Introduction

Part I. The postwar period. A fractured country and its fractured memories

The resurgent south and its lost cause

Remembering the victors' war in the Gilded Age

The rocky road to sectional reconciliation

Part II. The modern era. Distant drums in an age of global warfare

Centennial blues

Afterlife

Conclusion : the continuing Civil War.