Spectacle of Grief : Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era /

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"This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multi...

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Autor principal: Purcell, Sarah J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public opinion.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death > Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Collective memory > United States.
Death > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Public opinion.
United States > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The death of compromise, Henry Clay's funeral
  • The death of union and the martyrdom of Elmer Ellsworth and Stonewall Jackson
  • George Peabody, Robert E. Lee, and the boundaries of reconciliation
  • Charles Sumner and Joseph E. Johnston: mourning, memory, and forgetting
  • Extraordinary demonstrations of respect: Frederick Douglass, Winnie Davis, and standards of public grief.

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