War of Memory: The Civil War Continues in School Textbooks

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dc.contributor.advisorHale, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorShepherd, Sarah H.
dc.contributor.departmentCenter for Humanities - Historyen_US
dc.contributor.programBachelor's Degreeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-29T14:45:01Z
dc.date.available2018-05-29T14:45:01Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-01
dc.description.abstractThe piece I submitted titled, “War of Memory: The Civil War Continues in School Textbooks,” examines four 1890s history textbooks in order to demonstrate the evolution of the Lost Cause and how it was created out of the political, economic, and social anxieties of its time periods. This fact is crucial as the Lost Cause organizations and proponents were so successful at spreading their message that it can still be seen today in many people’s certainty that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights not slavery. Understanding that this belief was purposefully manipulated into the national narrative is key to unraveling the confusion that surrounds our modern debate around the Civil War. It also looks at how the Lost Cause was challenged during its creation, but the dominance of the Lost Cause caused its challengers to sometimes reinforce what they were fighting against. Nevertheless, they built a foundation of which later civil rights activists built upon.en_US
dc.format.extent103 pagesen_US
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2707WR7G
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/10870
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
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dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectCivil Waren_US
dc.subjectSlaveryen_US
dc.subjectTextbooksen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectReconstructionen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectLost Causeen_US
dc.subjectConfederacyen_US
dc.subjectUnionen_US
dc.subjectAlexander Stephensen_US
dc.subjectThomas Wentworth Higginsonen_US
dc.subjectSusan Pendleton Leeen_US
dc.subjectEdward Johnsonen_US
dc.titleWar of Memory: The Civil War Continues in School Textbooksen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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