What It Meant to Them: How the Civil War Generation Remembered

Authors

Caroline Janney, Purdue University

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Description

Dr. Janney is a Civil War historian who focuses on memory. Her most recent book, Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013), looks at the different ways Union and Confederate veterans remembered the war in order to commemorate their own cause. Ultimately these soldiers sought to justify their own reasons for fighting in the Civil War while dismissing the other side's reasons as unjust. Though it seemed Americans across the nation eventually accepted the Lost Cause, this was because the United Daughters of the Confederacy were effective at publicizing education.

Publication Date

4-12-2018

Relational Format

presentation

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Recommended Citation

Janney, Caroline, "What It Meant to Them: How the Civil War Generation Remembered" (2018). Burnham Lecture in Civil War History. 9.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/burnham_lecture/9