Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for veterans rather than soldiers; publishing houses built subscription bases by tapping into wartime loyalties; while old and young alike found endless sources of entertainment that harkened back to the war.
Moving beyond the discussions of how Civil War memory shaped politics and race relations, the essays assembled by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney provide a new framework for examining the intersections of material culture, consumerism, and contested memory in the everyday lives of late nineteenth-century Americans.
Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War was remembered and memorialized. Taken together, these essays trace the ways the buying and selling of the Civil War shaped Americans thinking about the conflict, making an important contribution to scholarship on Civil War memory and extending our understanding of subjects as varied as print, visual, and popular culture; finance; and the histories of education, of the book, and of capitalism in this period. This highly teachable volume presents an exciting intellectual fusion by bringing the subfield of memory studies into conversation with the literature on material culture.
The volumes contributors include Amanda Brickell Bellows, Crompton B. Burton, Kevin R. Caprice, Shae Smith Cox, Barbara A. Gannon, Edward John Harcourt, Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan S. Jones, Margaret Fairgrieve Milanick, John Neff , Paul Ringel, Natalie Sweet, David K. Thomson, and Jonathan W. White.
James Marten is professor of history at Marquette University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books, including Americas Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (Georgia); Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America; Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front; and The Childrens Civil War.
Caroline E. Janney is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and director of the Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause; Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation; Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia; and Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lees Army after Appomattox.
Amanda Brickell Bellows is a lecturer at the New School. A 2016 PhD from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, she published her first book, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination in 2020. She specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. history in comparative and transnational perspective.
James Marten is professor of history at Marquette University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books, including Americas Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (Georgia); Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America; Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front; and The Childrens Civil War.
Jonathan W. White is professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep and Dreams during the Civil War; Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln; and A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House.
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