In Troubled Commemoration, Robert J. Cook recounts the planning, organization, and ultimate failure of United States Civil War Centennial and reveals how the br

"War has been commemorated since ancient times. The recent First World War centenaries are proof that remembering conflict continues to produce strong feelings

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes

In his estimation, Northerners were just as active as Southerners in myth-making after the war. Crafting a "Cause Victorious" myth that was every bit as resonan