The Crimes of this Guilty Land: Will Never be Purged Away; But with Blood’: John Brown at the Charles Town Courthouse
Editors
Gary W. Gallagher
J. Matthew Gallman.
Colleges and Divisions
Arts and Letters
Department
History
Document Type
Book Chapter
Description
Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed historians of the Civil War select a single meaningful place related to the war and narrate its significance. Included here are meditations on a wide assortment of places--Devil's Den at Gettysburg, Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, the statue of William T. Sherman in New York's Central Park, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the McLean House in Appomattox, and more. Paired with a contemporary photograph commissioned specifically for this book, each essay offers an unusual and accessible glimpse into how historians think about their subjects
Publication/Event/Conference Title
Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict Through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
ISBN
9781469649535
Files
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Publication Date
2019
Edition
2019
Publisher
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords
Civil War memory, historic places, commemoration, battlefields, Gettysburg, Antietam, Appomattox, monuments and memorials, historical interpretation, collective memory
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Engle, Stephen D., "The Crimes of this Guilty Land: Will Never be Purged Away; But with Blood’: John Brown at the Charles Town Courthouse" (2019). Research Books. 14.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/faculty_books/14