{"product_id":"9781469609065","title":"Southern Cultures: Remembering the Civil War Issue: Volume 19: Number 3 - Fall 2013 Issue","description":"Our Fall 2013 special issue commemorates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Featuring essays on the birth of photojournalism at the Battle of Antietam, the struggle over history and memory in the pages of Confederate Veteran Magazine, a historian's-eye-view of Charleston's Secession Ball, poetry from the Poet Laureate of the United States, Civil War remembrances from the Southern Oral History Program, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFront Porch\u003cbr\u003eby Harry L. Watson\u003cbr\u003e\"The most powerful memories of the Civil War continue to be the personal stories, and while the transmission may be sputtering today, they remain the most evocative, both of the winners' frail victories and the losers' human pain.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncovering the Confederacy of the Mind\u003cbr\u003eOr, How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey's Church\u003cbr\u003eby Blain Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\"We started to wonder: did twenty-first-century Charleston have separate—even segregated—tourism industries, one that focused on the city's white history and another that told of its black past?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Great Weight of Responsibility\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Struggle over History and Memory in Confederate Veteran Magazine\u003cbr\u003eby Steven E. Sodergren\u003cbr\u003e\"'In the name of the future manhood of the South I protest. What are we to teach them? If we cannot teach them that their fathers were right, it follows that these Southern children must be taught that they were wrong.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Revenant\u003cbr\u003ephotographs by Matthew P. Shelton\u003cbr\u003e\"I drilled until the book was lace.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Harding Davis's Human Stories of the Civil War\u003cbr\u003eby Mark Canada\u003cbr\u003e\"'The war is surging up close about us.—O . . . if I could put into your and every true woman's heart the inexpressible loathing I have for it! If you could only see the other side enough to see the wrong the tyranny on both!'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaffitt, May 1861–September 1862\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War\u003cbr\u003eby Bland Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\"'No war? I have come to you directly from Washington City, where the caissons are rolling, where a great army has been gathering, where Lincoln is planning for war. Whether you are or not.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Truthful as the Record of Heaven\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Battle of Antietam and the Birth of Photojournalism\u003cbr\u003eby John M. Harris\u003cbr\u003e\"'Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations. These wrecks of manhood thrown together in careless heaps or ranged in ghastly rows for burial were alive but yesterday.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mississippi's Greatest Hour\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Mississippi Civil War Centennial and Southern Resistance\u003cbr\u003eby Alyssa D. Warrick\u003cbr\u003e\"From the outset, Mississippi's commission had a clear goal, evinced by its name. The Mississippi Commission on the War Between the States was unapologetically pro-Confederate, though willing to acknowledge, however begrudgingly, the Union victory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVoices from the Southern Oral History Program\u003cbr\u003e\"I Know It by Heart\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Civil War in the Memories of John W. Snipes, Ralph W. Strickland, Edith\u003cbr\u003eMitchell Dabbs, and Reginald Hildebrand\u003cbr\u003einterviewed by Brent Glass, Lu Ann Jones, Elizabeth Jacoway Burns, and Rob Stephens\u003cbr\u003ecompiled and introduced by Rachel F. Seidman\u003cbr\u003e\"'When my husband James was growing up, there was no race question. They assumed that was settled by the war. The Negroes were slaves and then they weren't. That settled it.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMason-Dixon Lines\u003cbr\u003eElegy for the Native Guards\u003cbr\u003epoetry by Natasha Trethewey\u003cbr\u003e\". . . 2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx.\u003cbr\u003eWhat is monument to their legacy?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107543957744,"sku":"9781469609065","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469609065_p0.jpg?v=1763699333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469609065","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}