Caroline E Janney: 4 books

Book cover of Remembering the Civil War

Remembering the Civil War

Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation

by Caroline E. Janney
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black...
Book cover of Burying the Dead but Not the Past

Burying the Dead but Not the Past

Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause

by Caroline E. Janney
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women...
Book cover of Virginia Women

Virginia Women

Their Lives and Times

by Anna Berkes, Warren Hofstra, Jodi Koste
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery...
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Lens of War

Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

by James Robertson Jr., Thavolia Glymph, Daniel Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the...
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