{"product_id":"they-are-dead-and-yet-they-live-civil-war-memories-in-a-polarized-america-hardback-9781496235824","title":"They Are Dead and Yet They Live; Civil War Memories in a Polarized America (Hardback) 9781496235824","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThey Are Dead and Yet They Live\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCivil War Memories in a Polarized America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn M. Kinder (Edited by), Jennifer M. Murray (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496235824\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e314 pages, 17 photographs, 1 illustration, 1 chronology, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This is a book of history like few others-a bold step in the evolution of our understanding of the Civil War. Courageous and sometimes provocative, these essays push us to consider the past in the present-how the tendrils of myth and memory have touched every corner of our social and political community and shape the everyday conversation we have about the nature and future of our nation.”-John Hennessy, National Park Service historian (retired) and author of \u003ci\u003eReturn to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Filled with extraordinary research and superb writing, \u003ci\u003eThey Are Dead and Yet They Live\u003c\/i\u003e provides a necessary reckoning with the power the American Civil War still holds over contemporary politics. Moving beyond the well-trod subject of Confederate monuments, the essays cover a range of topics, from renaming U.S. military bases to romance novels, reminding us along the way that the battles to control and leverage the war’s meaning continue to have profound and sometimes even deadly consequences.”-Caroline E. Janney, author of \u003ci\u003eRemembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Brilliantly argued with passion and conviction, \u003ci\u003eThey Are Dead and Yet They Live\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and provocative reminder of the profound ways the memory of the Civil War influences present-day America. A powerful and riveting read, the book helps explain our recent political and cultural life.”-Ty Seidule, author of \u003ci\u003eRobert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in 2020 reignited a passionate nationwide debate over Confederate memorials and flags as symbols of white supremacy in our public landscape. Controversies about Confederate monuments, however, have overshadowed more consequential battles over Civil War memory taking place in American politics, popular culture, and civil society today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Integrating the voices of Civil War historians, public historians, and scholars of contemporary America, \u003ci\u003eThey Are Dead and Yet They Live\u003c\/i\u003e explores the use (and abuse) of Civil War memory in the modern era, from the Civil War Centennial and the civil rights era through the political turmoil of the present day. Moving the conversation of Civil War memory beyond Confederate monuments to crucial debates about the Civil War’s usefulness as a frame for understanding America’s recent struggles, these essays show how Civil War memory is as politically urgent and socially relevant today as it was a half century ago.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Governor and the Palmetto Patriots\u003cbr\u003eJohn M. Kinder and Jennifer M. Murray\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. Lost Causes\u003cbr\u003e1. To Understand Where You Are Going, Remember Where You Have Been: Reconstruction's Reverberations in Twenty-First-Century America\u003cbr\u003eBrooks D. Simpson\u003cbr\u003e2. The Republican Party, the Lost Cause, and the Transformation of American Politics\u003cbr\u003eTim Galsworthy\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. Reclamation Projects\u003cbr\u003e3. The Politics of Civil War Memory in America's Military: The Battles to Rename Nine U.S. Army Bases\u003cbr\u003eJennifer M. Murray\u003cbr\u003e4. Freedom on the Fringes: Interpreting the Civil War and Relevancy at Camp Nelson\u003cbr\u003eSteve T. Phan\u003cbr\u003e5. Ghosts of Atchison: The Lynching of George Johnson\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Wolf\u003cbr\u003ePart 3. Consuming Memory\u003cbr\u003e6. Confederates in the Record Cabinet: Civil War Memory and the Historical Turns in Modern Country Music\u003cbr\u003eJoseph M. Thompson\u003cbr\u003e7. Love Is a Battlefield: Civil War Memory in Modern Romance Novels\u003cbr\u003eSarah Handley-Cousins\u003cbr\u003e8. Dixie Chic: Hoodies and Embodying Confederate Exceptionalism\u003cbr\u003eNicole Maurantonio\u003cbr\u003ePart 4. Civil War Memory in the Age of Black Lives Matter\u003cbr\u003e9. \"This Battle Was Fought Because Black Lives Matter\": How Black Lives Are (or Aren't) Remembered at Gettysburg\u003cbr\u003eScott Hancock\u003cbr\u003e10. The Black Confederate Myth and Civil War Memory in the Trump Era\u003cbr\u003eKevin M. Levin\u003cbr\u003ePart 5. The Next Civil War\u003cbr\u003e11. The Confederate Battle Flag's Symbolic Shorthand: Appropriation, Dissemination, and Proliferation by U.S.-Based White Supremacists in Post–Civil War America\u003cbr\u003eBrett A. Barnett\u003cbr\u003e12. Dylann Roof's Civil Wars\u003cbr\u003eJohn M. Kinder\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: \"Wow, That Was a Big Mistake\"\u003cbr\u003eJennifer M. Murray and John M. 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