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Book The History of the Stone Mountain Memorial

Download or read book The History of the Stone Mountain Memorial written by Mildred Lewis RUTHERFORD and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mildred Lewis Rutherford  Exponent of Southern Culture

Download or read book Mildred Lewis Rutherford Exponent of Southern Culture written by Margaret Anne Womack and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miss Rutherford s Historical Notes

Download or read book Miss Rutherford s Historical Notes written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miss Rutherford s Historical Notes  formerly Scrap Book

Download or read book Miss Rutherford s Historical Notes formerly Scrap Book written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Georgia s Stone Mountain

Download or read book Georgia s Stone Mountain written by Willard Neal and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every traveler, on first viewing Stone Mountain, has stood in awe at the foot of the looming monolith. Seasoned tourists and Georgia school children are affected just as pioneer explorers were. The towering rock is so impressive that each individual feels he is making a great discovery. Questions arise. How did Stone Mountain come to be? How old is it, and how high? Exactly how large is this biggest carving in the world. How was it done? Who did it? Who first saw Stone Mountain? What effects has it had on the development of our country? Thus, this book. It is dedicated to those who care enough to see and study the wonders of their country, and who, in their travels, have had the unexplainable and unexpected thrill of discovering Stone Mountain.

Book Miss Rutherford s Historical Notes  formerly Scrap Book

Download or read book Miss Rutherford s Historical Notes formerly Scrap Book written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miss Rutherford s Scrap Book

Download or read book Miss Rutherford s Scrap Book written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miss Rutherford s Scrap Book

Download or read book Miss Rutherford s Scrap Book written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monuments to the Lost Cause

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia Mills
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781572332720
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Monuments to the Lost Cause written by Cynthia Mills and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials - from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain - and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a romanticized narrative of the war. Several essays highlight the creative leading role played by women's groups in memorialization, while others explore the alternative ways in which people outside white southern culture wrote their very different histories on the southern landscape. The authors - who include Richard Guy Wilson, Catherine W. Bishir, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and William M.S. Ramussen - trace the origins, objectives, and changing consequences of Confederate monuments over time and the dynamics of individuals and organizations that sponsored them. Thus these essays extend the growing literature on the rhetoric of the Lost Cause by shifting the focus to the realm of the visual. They are especially relevant in the present day when Confederate symbols and monuments continue to play a central role in a public - and often emotionally charged - debate about how the South's past should be remembered. The editors: Art Historian Cynthia Mills, a specialist in nineteenth-century public sculpture, is executive editor of American Art, the scholarly journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Pamela H. Simpson is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. She is the coauthor of The Architecture of Historic Lexington.

Book Miss Rutherford s Scrap Book

Download or read book Miss Rutherford s Scrap Book written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some topics: "The Causes That Led to the War Between the States, Secession Was Not Rebellion, Who Was Responsible For War?, Was Coercion Constitutional?, Army and Navy of the Confederate States Organized, Battles and Leaders The Surrender and Results."

Book Gone but Not Forgotten

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wendy Hamand Venet
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2020-10-01
  • ISBN : 0820358134
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Gone but Not Forgotten written by Wendy Hamand Venet and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the differing ways that Atlantans have remembered the Civil War since its end in 1865. During the Civil War, Atlanta became the second-most important city in the Confederacy after Richmond, Virginia. Since 1865, Atlanta’s civic and business leaders promoted the city’s image as a “phoenix city” rising from the ashes of General William T. Sherman’s wartime destruction. According to this carefully constructed view, Atlanta honored its Confederate past while moving forward with financial growth and civic progress in the New South. But African Americans challenged this narrative with an alternate one focused on the legacy of slavery, the meaning of freedom, and the pervasive racism of the postwar city. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Atlanta’s white and black Civil War narratives collided. Wendy Hamand Venet examines the memorialization of the Civil War in Atlanta and who benefits from the specific narratives that have been constructed around it. She explores veterans’ reunions, memoirs and novels, and the complex and ever-changing interpretation of commemorative monuments. Despite its economic success since 1865, Atlanta is a city where the meaning of the Civil War and its iconography continue to be debated and contested.

Book Writings on American History

Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carved in Stone

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  • Author : David B. Freeman
  • Publisher : Mercer University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780865545472
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Carved in Stone written by David B. Freeman and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referred to by some as The Eighth Wonder of the World, Stone Mountain, located 16 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest exposed mass of granite in the world. Freeman, a freelance historian, narrates the development of the mountain from the days that it served as a Native American domain, through the carving of an historic Confederate monument, to its present status as a tourist attraction and recreational area. Enhanced with bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baptized in Blood

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  • Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 0820306819
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Baptized in Blood written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Reagan Wilson documents that for over half a century there existed not one, but two civil religions in the United States, the second not dedicated to honoring the American nation. Extensively researched in primary sources, Baptized in Blood is a significant and well-written study of the South’s civil religion, one of two public faiths in America. In his comparison, Wilson finds the Lost Cause offered defeated Southerners a sense of meaning and purpose and special identity as a precarious but distinct culture. Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a separate political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. “Civil religion” has been defined as the religious dimension of a people that enables them to understand a historical experience in transcendent terms. In this light, Wilson explores the role of religion in postbellum southern culture and argues that the profound dislocations of Confederate defeat caused southerners to think in religious terms about the meaning of their unique and tragic experience. The defeat in a war deemed by some as religious in nature threw into question the South’s relationship to God; it was interpreted in part as a God-given trial, whereby suffering and pain would lead Southerners to greater virtue and strength and even prepare them for future crusades. From this reflection upon history emerged the civil religion of the Lost Cause. While recent work in southern religious history has focused on the Old South period, Wilson’s timely study adds to our developing understanding of the South after the Civil War. The Lost Cause movement was an organized effort to preserve the memory of the Confederacy. Historians have examined its political, literary, and social aspects, but Wilson uses the concepts of anthropology, sociology, and historiography to unveil the Lost Cause as an authentic expression of religion. The Lost Cause was celebrated and perpetuated with its own rituals, mythology, and theology; as key celebrants of the religion of the Lost Cause, Southern ministers forged it into a religious movement closely related to their own churches. In examining the role of civil religion in the cult of the military, in the New South ideology, and in the spirit of the Lost Cause colleges, as well as in other aspects, Wilson demonstrates effectively how the religion of the Lost Cause became the institutional embodiment of the South’s tragic experience.

Book The Black Box

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2024-03-19
  • ISBN : 0593299795
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book The Black Box written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African-American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.” — Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—these writers used words to create a livable world—a "home" —for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history’s most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a "community." Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be "Black," and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future. This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of—and resisted confinement in—the "black box" inside which this "nation within a nation" has been assigned, willy nilly, from the nation’s founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people.