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Pickett's charge in history and memory /

In this book, Reardon shows that the story told today of Pickett's Charge is really an amalgam of history and memory. The evolution of that mix, she concludes, tells us much about how we come to understand our nation's past.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reardon, Carol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: history, memory, and Pickett's charge
  • Disconnected threads
  • Scarcely anybody can give a correct account
  • History as it ought to have been
  • Binding the wounds of war
  • Monuments to memory
  • Southern dissenters speak out
  • Virginia victorious
  • Hand-grips at the sacred wall
  • Epilogue: the old bright way of the tales.