Author: United Daughters of the Confederacy. Missouri Division
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: United Daughters of the Confederacy. Texas Division
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Amy Laurel Fluker
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate commemoration. She provides the most complete look yet at the construction of Civil War memory in Missouri, illuminating the particular challenges that shaped Civil War commemoration. As a slaveholding Union state on the Western frontier, Missouri found itself at odds with the popular narratives of Civil War memory developing in the North and the South. At the same time, the state’s deeply divided population clashed with one another as they tried to find meaning in their complicated and divisive history. As Missouri’s Civil War generation constructed and competed to control Civil War memory, they undertook a series of collaborative efforts that paved the way for reconciliation to a degree unmatched by other states. Acts of Civil War commemoration have long been controversial and were never undertaken for objective purposes, but instead served to transmit particular values to future generations. Understanding this process lends informative context to contemporary debates about Civil War memory.

Author: United Confederate Veterans. Missouri Division
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: United Daughters of the Confederacy
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1386

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Author: United Daughters of the Confederacy. Missouri Division
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: United Confederate Veterans. Missouri Division
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1124

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Author: United Confederate Veterans. Missouri Division
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Christopher Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195187237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham Lincoln's home region, had far more ambiguous identities-and contested political loyalties-than we commonly assume. In The Rivers Ran Backward, Christopher Phillips sheds light on the fluid political cultures of the "Middle Border" states during the Civil War era. Far from forming a fixed and static boundary between the North and South, the border states experienced fierce internal conflicts over their political and social loyalties. White supremacy and widespread support for the existence of slavery pervaded the "free" states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, which had much closer economic and cultural ties to the South, while those in Kentucky and Missouri held little identification with the South except over slavery. Debates raged at every level, from the individual to the state, in parlors, churches, schools, and public meeting places, among families, neighbors, and friends. Ultimately, the pervasive violence of the Civil War and the cultural politics that raged in its aftermath proved to be the strongest determining factor in shaping these states' regional identities, leaving an indelible imprint on the way in which Americans think of themselves and others in the nation. The Rivers Ran Backward reveals the complex history of the western border states as they struggled with questions of nationalism, racial politics, secession, neutrality, loyalty, and even place-as the Civil War tore the nation, and themselves, apart. In this major work, Phillips shows that the Civil War was more than a conflict pitting the North against the South, but one within the West that permanently reshaped American regions.