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A Select Bibliography of Civil War Memory Literature for the NEH Workshop
Created by Dr. John Neff - History Dept., University of Mississippi - Oxford Campus

Theoretical Foundations

Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (London: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

James Fentress and Chris Wickham, Social Memory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).

Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, ed. trans. by Lewis A. Coser (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1992).

Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (London: Cambridge
            University Press, 1983).

Patrick H. Hutton, History as an Art of Memory (Hanover: University of Vermont, 1993), 1-10.

David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country (New York: Cambridge University Press,
            1985).

Pierre Nora, Between History and Memory: Les Lieux de Mémoire, Representations 26
(Spring 1989): 7-25.

Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in
American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).

David Thelen,  Memory and American History, Journal of American History 75, no. 4
            (Mar.1989):1117-1129.

David Thelen, Memory in American History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).

Memory of the Civil War

David Blight, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (Amherst:

            University of Massachusetts Press, 2002).

Thomas J. Brown, The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration (Boston: Bedford/St.
            Martin’s, 2004).
 

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, A Race, Memory and Masculinity: Black Veterans Recall the Civil War,
            in Joan Cashin, ed., The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War
            (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Where These Memories Grow (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
            Press, 2000).

Kathleen Clark, Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture
in the South, 1863-1913 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, eds., The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (Chapel
Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

John Pettegrew, The Soldier’s Faith: Turn-of-the-Century Memory of the Civil War and the

            Emergence of Modern American Nationalism, Journal of Contemporary History 31,
no. 1 (Jan. 1996), 49-73.
 

Carol Reardon, Gettysburg in History and Memory (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
            Press, 1997).

Reunion Literature

David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001).

Paul H. Buck, The Road to Reunion (Boston: Little, Brown, 1938).

Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South,
1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).

John Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of
            Reconciliation (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005).

Nina Silber,  The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).

Veterans and Affiliated Organizations

Karen L. Cox, Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the
            Preservation of Confederate Culture (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
            2003).

Stuart McConnell, Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900
            (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).

Mary Poppenheim, et al., The History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
            (Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1938).

Lost Cause

William C. Davis, The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy (Lawrence:
            University Press of Kansas, 1996).
 

Gaines Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence
            of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
 

Gary Gallagher and Alan Nolan, eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
            (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).

Rollin G. Osterweis, The Myth of the Lost Cause, 1865-1900 (Hamden, Conn. Archon
        Books, 1973).

Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
         (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980).

Other Civil War Related Works

Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War: American Writers and The Civil War (Madison:
            University of  Wisconsin Press, 1987).
 

Sarah Orne Jewett, A Decoration Day, in Novels and Stories (New York: Library of
            America, 1994), 773-786.
 

Maris Vinovskis, A Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic
Speculations. Journal of American History 76, 1 (June 1989): 34-58.
 

Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War (New York:
            Oxford University Press, 1962).

Of General Interest

Alan Confino, Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method, American
Historical Review 102, no. 5 (Dec. 1997): 1386-1403.
 

Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair?
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 January 2001, B11-B12.
 

John R. Gillis, Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton: Princeton
            University Press, 1994).
 

Elliot J. Gorn, Professing History: Distinguishing Between Memory and History, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 April 2000, B4-B5.

Jacquelyn Down Hall, You Must Remember This: Autobiography as Social Critique, Journal
of American History 85, no. 2 (Sept. 1998): 439-465.
 

Barry Schwartz, The Social Context of Commemoration: A Study in Collective Memory,
Social Forces 61, no. 2 (Dec. 1982): 374-402.
 

Timothy Smith. The Untold Battle of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield (Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, c. 2006).

World War I

Paul Fussel, The Great War and Modern Memory (New York: Oxford University Press,
            1975).

Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural
            History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
 

Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan, eds., War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century.
            (London: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
 

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