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Octavo, hardcover, fine in lightly edgeworn purple and gray pictorial dj. Most Americans today know the Civil War through popular culture, not through the professional historical ... literature. In this work, Cullen examines popular renderings of the war from books and films to songs and drama showing how they have come to represent various truths about the war to certain groups, precisely because they resonate with contemporary points of division and struggle. Gone With the Wind, Southern Rock and Roll, the movie, Glory, are all discussed or presented. 253 pp. including index. Read more Show Less

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To most Americans today, the Civil War is known through popular culture, not through the professional historical literature. In this book Jim Cullen examines popular renderings of the war — from books & films to songs & drama — showing how they have come to represent various truths about the war to certain groups, precisely because they resonate with contemporary points of division & struggle. Cullen takes specific examples from twentieth-century popular culture, such as books, films, rock n roll, & historical reenactors. For each, the recollection of the Civil War serves & is shaped by current concerns.
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To most Americans today, the Civil War is known through popular culture, not through the professional historical literature. In this book Jim Cullen examines popular renderings of the war — from books & films to songs & drama — showing how they have come to represent various truths about the war to certain groups, precisely because they resonate with contemporary points of division & struggle. Cullen takes specific examples from twentieth-century popular culture, such as books, films, rock n roll, & historical reenactors. For each, the recollection of the Civil War serves & is shaped by current concerns.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781560984597
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
  • Publication date: 3/17/1995
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 6.29 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: History as Culture 1
Ch. 1 The Past Keeps Changing: The Civil War in Popular Culture and Academic History, 1830-1930 8
Ch. 2 "A Tree Is Best Measured When It's Down": Carl Sandburg, James Randall, and the Usable Pasts of Abraham Lincoln 29
Ch. 3 Screening the Book: The Civil War of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind 65
Ch. 4 Reconstructing Dixie: Confederate Mythology in Rock 'n' Roll 108
Ch. 5 A Few Good Men: Glory and the Search for a Just War 139
Ch. 6 Patriotic "Gore": Jonathan Clarke's Civil War 172
Conclusion: The Art of History 200
Notes 205
Source Credits 243
Index 245

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