Monuments to the lost cause : women, art, and the landscapes of southern memory / edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson.

Other author Mills, Cynthia J.
Other author Simpson, Pamela H. (Pamela Hemenway), 1946-2011.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxxx, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Subjects
Monuments--History. --Civil War, 1861-1865. --United States.
War memorials--Southern States. --History.
Monuments--Southern States. --History.
Women--Southern States. --Political activity. --History.
Political culture--Southern States. --History.
Memory--Social aspects. --Southern States. --History.
United States--History. --Civil War, 1861-1865. --Influence.
Southern States--Politics and government. --1865-1950.
Southern States--Social conditions. --1865-1945.
Southern States--Race relations.

Contents "A strong force of ladies" : women, politics, and Confederate memorial associations in nineteenth-century Raleigh / Catherine W. Bishir -- Marking Union victory in the South : the construction of the National Cemetery system / Catherine W. Zipf -- Making history : African American commemorative celebrations in Augusta, Georgia, 1865-1913 / Kathleen Clark -- "Woman's hand and heart and deathless love" : white women and the commemorative impulse in the New South / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- The great Lee Chapel controversy and the "little group of willful women" who saved the shrine of the South / Pamela H. Simpson -- Monument Avenue, Richmond : a unique American boulevard / Richard Guy Wilson -- Personalizing the political : the Davis family circle in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery / M. Anna Fariello -- The virtuous soldier : constructing a usable Confederate past in Franklin, Tennessee / David Currey -- The Confederate Monument at Arlington : a token of reconciliation / Karen L. Cox -- Planning a temple to the lost cause : the Confederate "battle abbey" / William M.S. Rasmussen -- Gratitude and gender wars : monuments to the women of the sixties / Cynthia Mills -- Commemorating the color line : the national mammy monument controversy of the 1920s / Micki McElya -- Granite stopped time : Stone Mountain Memorial and the representation of White Southern identity / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- Contesting the sacred : preservation and meaning on Richmond's Monument Avenue / Brian Black and Bryn Varley.
Contents Gratitude and gender wars : monuments to the women of the sixties / Cynthia Mills -- Commemorating the color line : the national mammy monument controversy of the 1920s / Micki Mcelya -- Granite stopped time : Sone Mountain Memorial and the representation of white southern identity / Gace Elizabeth Hale -- Contesting the sacred : preservation and meaning on Richmond's Monument Avenue / Brian Black and Bryn Varley.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-253) and index.
LCCN 2002155367
ISBN1572332727 (acid-free paper)

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