Interpreting sacred ground : the rhetoric of national Civil War parks and battlefields / / J. Christian Spielvogel.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
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Physical Description:x, 190 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Race and memory
  • "We are met on a great battle-field": race, memory, and the Gettysburg Address
  • Reviving emancipationist memory at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
  • Violence and memory
  • Savage and heroic war memories at Gettysburg National Military Park
  • The symbolic landscape: visualizing violence at Gettysburg National Military Park
  • "The waters ran red": savage interpretations of war at Cold Harbor Visitor Center.