Remembering the Civil War
Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
By Caroline E. Janney
464 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 21 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2989-6
Published: August 2016 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-0707-8
Published: June 2013 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8259-2
Published: June 2013
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
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Awards & distinctions
2013 Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy
Honorable Mention, 2014 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
2014 Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association
Janney explores the subtle yet important differences between reunion and reconciliation and argues that the Unionist and Emancipationist memories of the war never completely gave way to the story Confederates told. She challenges the idea that white northerners and southerners salved their war wounds through shared ideas about race and shows that debates about slavery often proved to be among the most powerful obstacles to reconciliation.
About the Author
Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia, and author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.
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Reviews
"Splendidly written. . . . Recommended. All levels/libraries." —Choice
“A book that will be useful to scholars and casual readers for many years to come.”—Civil War Book Review
"Remembering the Civil War offers important insights and demonstrates without a doubt that memory studies are far from exhausted. Whether a readership beyond the academy that continues to embrace reconciliation — as evidenced by the ongoing Civil War 150th commemoration — has yet to be seen."—Virginia Magazine
“It deserves its place as a leading work in the historiography on war and memory.”—North Carolina Historical Review
“[This] revisionist study argues that the Lost Cause mythology and rush to reconciliation was much less pervasive than previously thought.”-—Civil War Times
“This perceptive study should caution those who have embraced the reconciliationist interpretation to proceed with discernment.”—Civil War Monitor