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"'The Sinews of Memory:' The Forging of Civil War Memory and Reconciliation, 1865-1940"

Bare, Steven A
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1553755702050774

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, History.
“The Sinews of Memory:’ The Forging of Civil War Memory and Reconciliation, 1865 – 1940,” explores the creation of historical memory of the American Civil War and, its byproduct, reconciliation. Stakeholders in the historical memory formation of the war and reconciliation were varied and many. “The Sinews of Memory” argues reconciliation blossomed from the 1880s well into the twentieth-century due to myriad of historical forces in the United States starting with the end of the war leading up to World War II. The crafters of the war’s memory and reconciliation – veterans, women’s groups, public history institutions, governmental agents, and civic boosters – arrived at a collective memory of the war predicated on notions of race, manliness, nationalism, and patriotism. In forging a specific memory of the Civil War, the aforementioned stakeholders in the process utilized veterans’ fraternal organizations, joint encampments of veterans, physical space, pilgrimages to sites of memory, and cultural products such as cinema to bind the former belligerent regions, both North and South, together. Out of the effort at reconciliation, a White, predominately middle-class, memory of the war emerged.
Kim Nielsen (Committee Chair)
Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch (Committee Member)
Bruce Way (Committee Member)
Neil Reid (Committee Member)
288 p.
American History; History; Military History; Museums
Civil War; Historical Memory; Reconciliation; Battlefields; Cemeteries; Monuments; Pilgrimages; Film; Cinema

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  • Bare, S. A. (2019). "'The Sinews of Memory:' The Forging of Civil War Memory and Reconciliation, 1865-1940" [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1553755702050774

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bare, Steven. "'The Sinews of Memory:' The Forging of Civil War Memory and Reconciliation, 1865-1940". 2019. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1553755702050774.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bare, Steven. ""'The Sinews of Memory:' The Forging of Civil War Memory and Reconciliation, 1865-1940"." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1553755702050774

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