| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Ed. by Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 286 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 08078-2907-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80785572-3.)

Over the course of the last two decades, the study of memory has evolved from an emerging trend to a defining feature on the contemporary historiographic landscape, as characteristic of its time as studies of American exceptionalism were in the postwar decades or labor history was in the wake of the New Left. Not surprisingly, the Civil War has attracted a great deal of attention as a site—or, perhaps more accurately, a battleground—where struggles over memory have come most sharply into focus. The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture is an excellent distillation of this scholarship, a kind of greatest hits collection that brings together a distinguished collection of middle period historians who per form characteristic riffs in a genre that they play with ease, skill, and insight.

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