Gone but not forgotten : Atlantans commemorate the Civil War /

This book examines the ways that Atlantans have remembered the Civil War since 1865. During the Civil War, Atlanta became the second most important city in the Confederacy, after Richmond. Since the end of the war, Atlanta's civic and business leaders promoted its image as a 'Phoenix City&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Venet, Wendy Hamand (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Solomon Luckie and the Lamppost
  • The Lost Cause
  • The New South
  • Sectional Reconciliation in a Time of Racial Tension
  • The UDC and the Struggle over Stone Mountain
  • Artists, Writers, and Historians of the 1920s-1930s
  • The Civil War Centennial
  • Shades of Gray.