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The Way We Remember It: The Popular Memory Of The Battle Of Gettysburg, Glenn Dietrich
The Way We Remember It: The Popular Memory Of The Battle Of Gettysburg, Glenn Dietrich
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
The relationship between history and memory is an essential and complicated concept that significantly affects how the public remembers the past. A prime example of this complex relationship between history and memory is true in the most famous battle of the Civil War. Gettysburg is one of the most critical events in American history, for which thousands of books and countless historians have retold this momentous battle. In the case of the popular memory of Gettysburg, I argue that the significant amount of academic historiography, popular media, and American history textbooks have established a reconciliationist memory. This memory focuses more …