Troubled commemoration: the American Civil War centennial, 1961-1965
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1. Verfasser: Cook, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2007
Schriftenreihe:Making the modern South
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index
Organizing a Cold War pageant -- The white south commemorates the Civil War -- Let's call the whole thing off: the Charleston Crises of 1961 -- The historians take control -- African Americans and the Civil War centennial -- Winding down: the forgotten centennial, 1962-1965 -- An opportunity for warmth: the Civil War centennial as an exercise in consensus culture
In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Politicians hoped that a formal program of activities to mark the centennial of the Civil War would both bolster American patriotism at the height of the cold war and increase tourism in the South. Almost overnight, however, the patriotic pageant that organizers envisioned was transformed into a struggle
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 300 pages)
ISBN:0807132276
0807137006
9780807132272
9780807137000

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