Playing at war : identity and memory in Civil War video games /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Lewis, Patrick A., 1984- (Editor), Welborn, James Hill, III (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
Series:	American wars and popular culture
Subjects:	War video games > United States. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns > Video games. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Computer simulation. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Historiography. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence. United States > In popular culture. Lost Cause mythology. Jeux vidéo de guerre > États-Unis. États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Historiographie. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Scouting the Landscape of Civil War Game Studies
Playing with Accuracy: Research Methodology and Historical Accuracy in Civil War Video Games / Kathleen Logothetis Thompson
"Itching to Fight": Civil War Video Game Manuals and the Emotions of Playing at War / Katherine L. Brackett
Modeling "Clean Wars": The Civil War and Second World War in Grand Strategy Games / James Frusetta
Civil War-Based Game Modifications and Crowdsourced Historical Memory / Stephen J. Edwards and Blakeney K. Hill
Briefing on Civil War Causation and Gameplay Limitations, 1970s -1990s
Searching for Indigeneity in The Oregon Trail / John R. Legg
Interpreting Slavery through Video Games: The Story of Freedom! / Nicholas W. Sacco
Two-Bit History at 8-Bit Speed: Civil War Memory in North & South during the Resurgence of Console Gaming / James Hill Welborn III
Deployment to the Strategic Hex Grid and First-Person Shooters, 1990s -2000s
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! and Civil War Culture / Patrick A. Lewis
Party on the Hex Grid: Balancing Authenticity and Fun in Civil War Generals 2 / Christian McWhirter
The End Boss of the Union: Examining Virtual Fights for Washington, DC, in Civil War Video Games / Jacopo della Quercia and Erzsébet Fazekas
Combating Flawed Authenticity: The History Channel, A Nation Divided, and Civil War Memory / Charles R. Welsko
Next-Gen and Online Redeployment in the 2010s
Race, Slavery, and the United States Colored Troops in Ultimate General: Civil War / David Silkenat and Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
What "Rights" Exactly? War of Rights, Education, and Civil War Memory in the Twenty-First Century / Daniel Farrell
Myth, Memory, and the Civil War's Looming Presence in Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood / Aaron M. Phillips
Slavery, the Civil War, and Memory in Red Dead Redemption 2 / Jonathan S. Jones.