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These Honored Dead : : how the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory

Desjardin, Thomas A., 1964- Book - 2003 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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The many meanings of Gettysburg -- Infirm foundations -- The struggle over memory -- Rascality and stupidity -- The self-fulfilling prophecy of John Badger Bachelder -- Lost in the lost cause -- Constructing the consummate Gettysburg hero -- The world's largest collection of outdoor sculpture -- Where's Buster Kilrain buried? -- American valhalla.

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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: xxii, 246 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0306812673 :

SUBJECTS
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
National characteristics, American.
Memory -- Social aspects.
United States -- Influence. -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- Historiography. -- Civil War, 1861-1865