As America’s Civil War laid claim to hundreds of thousands lives, it also transformed large swaths of bucolic countryside into cemeteries and memorials. This comparative study of two battlefield-located Civil War cemeteries, Battleground National Cemetery and Ball’s Bluff National Cemetery, examines the influence of natural and political forces on the aesthetics of the original sites. I argue that the land and objects on these sites function together as purveyors of specific narratives on the meaning of the war—narratives which vary dramatically based on the geographical location of the site within the Confederate–Union binary.La guerre de Sécession américaine, qui a coûté des centaines de milliers de...
The emotional and psychological damage wrought by the Great War has long been rendered exceptional. ...
750,000 and rising. 2.5 percent of the population. Greater than all other American wars combined. No...
Abstract In recent years there has been ongoing controversy in the United States regarding monuments...
The Civil War in the United States was the deadliest conflict faced by Americans during the nineteen...
Secession in the Cemetery Crafting the Cause Victorious Scholars of American history are looking i...
Civil War memory has been the focus of a great deal of scholarship in recent years. A large percenta...
Monumental Architecture signifies the buildings and monuments themselves in situ together with deepe...
In the 150 years since the start of the U.S. Civil War, historians and laypeople alike have debated ...
In the early 1900s, many people began to advocate for Confederate monuments on the battlefield at Ge...
Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still conteste...
Continual Strife and Public Memory Commemorations in the aftermath of the War In the aftermath of ...
The issue of the appropriateness of Confederate monuments has become an impassioned talking point fo...
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also...
Bellion, WendyThis dissertation examines the development of the citizen soldier monument: the profus...
This thesis explores the absence of a Union monument at the Olustee Battlefield one hundred and fift...
The emotional and psychological damage wrought by the Great War has long been rendered exceptional. ...
750,000 and rising. 2.5 percent of the population. Greater than all other American wars combined. No...
Abstract In recent years there has been ongoing controversy in the United States regarding monuments...
The Civil War in the United States was the deadliest conflict faced by Americans during the nineteen...
Secession in the Cemetery Crafting the Cause Victorious Scholars of American history are looking i...
Civil War memory has been the focus of a great deal of scholarship in recent years. A large percenta...
Monumental Architecture signifies the buildings and monuments themselves in situ together with deepe...
In the 150 years since the start of the U.S. Civil War, historians and laypeople alike have debated ...
In the early 1900s, many people began to advocate for Confederate monuments on the battlefield at Ge...
Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still conteste...
Continual Strife and Public Memory Commemorations in the aftermath of the War In the aftermath of ...
The issue of the appropriateness of Confederate monuments has become an impassioned talking point fo...
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also...
Bellion, WendyThis dissertation examines the development of the citizen soldier monument: the profus...
This thesis explores the absence of a Union monument at the Olustee Battlefield one hundred and fift...
The emotional and psychological damage wrought by the Great War has long been rendered exceptional. ...
750,000 and rising. 2.5 percent of the population. Greater than all other American wars combined. No...
Abstract In recent years there has been ongoing controversy in the United States regarding monuments...