Interpreting sacred ground [electronic resource] : the rhetoric of national Civil War parks and battlefields / J. Christian Spielvogel.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critiquePublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.Description: x, 190 p. : illISBN:- 9780817317751 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817386313 (e-book)
- United States. National Park Service
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields -- Conservation and restoration
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields -- Study and teaching
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Study and teaching
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- 973.7071 23
- E641 .S65 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Race and memory -- "We are met on a great battle-field": race, memory, and the Gettysburg Address -- Reviving emancipationist memory at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park -- Violence and memory -- Savage and heroic war memories at Gettysburg National Military Park -- The symbolic landscape: visualizing violence at Gettysburg National Military Park -- "The waters ran red": savage interpretations of war at Cold Harbor Visitor Center.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.