Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (UnCivil Wars) - Softcover

Brian Matthew Jordan (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820364568 ISBN 13: 9780820364568

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2023

Synopsis

A collection of essays that examine how we have memorialized the Civil War

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About the Authors

BRIAN MATTHEW JORDAN is associate professor and chairperson of history at Sam Houston State University. He is the author or editor of five books, including Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War; The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans; and A Thousand May Fall: Live, Death, and Survival in the Union Army.

JONATHAN W. WHITE is professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep and Dreams during the Civil War; Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln; and A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House.

DAVID W. BLIGHT is a professor of history at Yale University, the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale, and the author of several books, most recently, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.

EDWARD L. AYERS is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Richmond. His major publications include The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992); In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America (2003); and The Thin Light of Freedom: Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (2017). He and Paul Gaston were colleagues on the history faculty at the University of Virginia from 1980 until the latter’s retirement in 1997.

CAROLINE E. JANNEY is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and director of the Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause; Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation; Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia; and Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 0820364568
• ISBN 13: 9780820364568
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384