| Edition |
1st Vintage Departures edition. |
| Description |
406 pages : maps ; 21 cm. |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
unmediated n rdamedia |
|
volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Vintage departures |
|
Vintage departures.
|
| Note |
Originally published: Pantheon Books, ©1998. |
|
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Confederates in the attic -- North Carolina: cats of the Confederacy -- South Carolina: in the better half of the world -- South Carolina: shades of gray -- Kentucky: dying for Dixie -- Virginia: a farb of the heart -- Tennessee: At the foote of the master -- Tennessee: The ghost marks of Shiloh -- Mississippi: The minié ball pregnancy -- Virginia and beyond: the civil wargasm -- Georgia: gone with the window -- Georgia: still prisoners of the war -- Alabama: only living Confederate widow tells some -- Alabama: I had a dream -- Strike the tent. |
| Summary |
This volume investigates the ties in the United States; South among citizens to the American Civil War that ended more than 130 years previously. The author reports on contemporary attitudes on the Civil War and how it is discussed and taught, as well as attitudes about race. Written in the form of dispatches posted at varying times, it recounts the author's Civil War explorations in the South. Some of his encounters are humorous, but many open a window into the tragic state of the US's chasmic divisions. |
| Subject |
Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019 -- Travel -- Southern States.
|
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
|
|
Horwitz, Tony, 1958- -- Journeys -- Southern States.
|
|
15.85 history of America. (NL-LeOCL)07761190X
|
|
Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019 (OCoLC)fst00220409
|
|
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
|
|
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
|
|
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
|
|
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
|
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658 |
| Chronological Term |
1861-1865
|
|
1990-2000. (NL-LeOCL)241925134
|
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
|
| ISBN |
067975833X (VIntage paperback) |
|
9780679758334 (VIntage paperback) |
|
0679439781 (Pantheon hardcover) |
|
9780679439783 (Pantheon hardcover) |
|
