Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

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June 21 2021 Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America. Lesley J. Gordon Lesley J. Gordon Lesley J. Gordon is the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama. Her books includeA Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War(2014) andGeorge E. Pickett in Life and Legend(1998). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lesley J. Gordon Lesley J. Gordon is the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama. Her books includeA Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War(2014) andGeorge E. Pickett in Life and Legend(1998). Online Issn: 1937-2213 Print Issn: 0028-4866 © 2021 by The New England Quarterly2021The New England Quarterly The New England Quarterly (2021) 94 (2): 292–295. https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00895 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Lesley J. Gordon; Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America. The New England Quarterly 2021; 94 (2): 292–295. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00895 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsThe New England Quarterly Search Advanced Search Civil War monuments have gained renewed attention in recent years, much of it prompted by a long overdue public reckoning with Confederate symbols. In places like New Orleans, Charlottesville, and Chapel Hill, anger has erupted over the removal (or threat of removal) of statues to Confederate military leaders and soldiers. Thomas J. Brown's Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America comes at an especially opportune time to help us better contextualize when and where these memorials, North and South, were built and why. Beginning during the war itself, Brown traces the erection of hundreds of monuments through the 1930s, including statues, memorial halls, and obelisks. These structures, Brown argues, “transformed the civic landscape and the place of the military in national life” (1). Surveying oration speeches, commission reports, newspapers, and the monuments themselves, Civil War Monuments offers a thoughtful and timely commentary on Civil War memory and, more generally,... You do not currently have access to this content.