19. Legacies

Questions:
1. How has the meaning of the Civil War altered for each subsequent generation?
2. What are the major historiographical issues that Civil War scholars need to turn to in the future?

David W. Blight, “‘For Something beyond the Battlefield’: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War,” Journal of American History 75:4. (1989), 1156-78.
Edward L. Ayers, “Worrying about the Civil War,” from Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry, eds, Moral Problems in American Life: New Perspectives on Cultural History (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998)
Drew Gilpin Faust, “‘We Should Grow Too Fond of It’: Why We Love the Civil War,” Civil War History 50.4 (2004) 368-383.
Jim Cullen, The Civil War in popular culture: a reusable past (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)
Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (New York: Pantheon, 1998)