Civil War Memories

Historian, Educator & Public Speaker

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  • Heroic Voices of the Spanish Civil War: Memories from the International Brigades
  • Civil war memories: contesting the past in the United States since 1865
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    • Heroic Voices of the Spanish Civil War: Memories from the International Brigades

    I put my clothes on, took my bridles for my only little pony I had to help me make a living, and I stalked through the dark wooded pasture nearby until I found him. I talked to him and said, 'Pony Babe, you come here to me.

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    You got to make your best run of your dear life. Our enemy is after us.

    He ate, seemingly rather nervous. He seemed to hear the extra noises just a mile away.

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    At daybreak I had gotten my money ready to leave. I spoke to Babe, 'Hurry Babe!

    Civil war memories: contesting the past in the United States since 1865

    I head the soldiers whoop and the race was on. I heard a few shots fired at me and Babe and I couldn't tell whether I was gaining or losing for awhile, but Babe seemed to be just warming up to the race as we mounted first one hill and then another.

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    I used the instructions my father had given me to never kick a horse with your heels but use your voice by talking to your mount or using a small limb on the shoulder, because kicking your mount only shortened the pony's breath. Anyway, I outran my enemies. I ran from home to Park Hill,, as about where Park Hill is located now, to a woman's house I knew as being my friend, though she was a Confederate supporter.

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    Insightfully layering past and present, Cook concludes that. Each of these productions left audiences with a patriotic afterglow and revealed the extent to which the stories that Americans told themselves about the s had altered since the [] centennial commemorations p.

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    At a cost of at least , lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is. In his new monograph Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since , Robert J. Cook supplies a thoughtful and eminently readable .

    The real achievement of this book is to synthesize and create a clear narrative out of the rather messy and un-straightforward trajectory of Civil War memory in the United States. Throughout the study, Cook demonstrates the shifting yet persistent current of war memory, skilfully pointing out how it has intersected with concerns of the day and how it remains, despite being long since absent from living memory, the central, formative experience of the American people.

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