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Americans Remember Their Civil War by Barbara A. Gannon (review)

Americans Remember Their Civil War by Barbara A. Gannon (review) megan l. bever, assistant professor of history at Missouri Southern State University, has published articles in Civil War History and the Journal of Sport History. Americans Remember Their Civil War. By Barbara A. Gannon. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2017. Pp. 170. Cloth, $37.00.) In 2011, Barbara A. Gannon’s The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic became the defini - tive book on the history of the GAR. Now an associate professor of his- tory at the University of Central Florida, Gannon has produced the first book-length historiography of Civil War memory. Although Americans Remember Their Civil War is a quick read and can easily be completed in an evening, scholars will return to it again and again as a key reference for historical memory studies. This book will be particularly useful for teaching and as a study guide for graduate students preparing for comprehensive exams. Gannon sum- marizes the major points of countless important Civil War books, while also making an original contribution by detailing how the field of Civil War memory has evolved. Given the vast number of books on the topic, a histo- riography of Civil War memory was sorely http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Americans Remember Their Civil War by Barbara A. Gannon (review)

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The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 9 (2) – Jun 1, 2019
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megan l. bever, assistant professor of history at Missouri Southern State University, has published articles in Civil War History and the Journal of Sport History. Americans Remember Their Civil War. By Barbara A. Gannon. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2017. Pp. 170. Cloth, $37.00.) In 2011, Barbara A. Gannon’s The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic became the defini - tive book on the history of the GAR. Now an associate professor of his- tory at the University of Central Florida, Gannon has produced the first book-length historiography of Civil War memory. Although Americans Remember Their Civil War is a quick read and can easily be completed in an evening, scholars will return to it again and again as a key reference for historical memory studies. This book will be particularly useful for teaching and as a study guide for graduate students preparing for comprehensive exams. Gannon sum- marizes the major points of countless important Civil War books, while also making an original contribution by detailing how the field of Civil War memory has evolved. Given the vast number of books on the topic, a histo- riography of Civil War memory was sorely

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