AltaMira Press
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978-0-7591-0262-0 • Hardback • February 2003 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
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Paul A. Shackel is professor and director of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland. He is the author of Personal Discipline and Material Culture, Culture Change and the New Technology, and Archaeology and Created Memory.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4
Chapter 1: Contested Memories of the Civil War
Chapter 5
Chapter 2: The John Brown Fort: Unwanted Symbol, Coveted Icon
Chapter 6
Chapter 3: Southern Heritage and the Faithful Slave Monuments: The Heyward Shepherd Memorial
Chapter 7
Chapter 4: Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Monument: Redefining the Role of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Chapter 8
Chapter 5: Contradictions on the Landscape: Myth and Creation at Manassas National Battlefield Park
Chapter 9
Chapter 6: Remembering Landscapes of Conflict
Chapter 10 Epilogue: Approaches to Changing the Meaning of Commemoration
In this book, Paul Shackel accurately observes, 'Public memory is more a reflection of present political and social relations than a true reconstruction of the past.' Arguments over history today reflect deeply felt emotions about who we are as a society,who we have been, and where we think we should be headed. In an effort to parse out the inherent conflicts that have arisen over the remembering of history, Professor Paul Shackel focuses on the all important issue of race, and reminds us how race and racism have affected and continue to affect the popular presentation of the past and especially of the American Civil War. Memory in Black and White serves as a strong reminder of how ideas about race have influenced the preservation of places in the past and how it can affect, in both positive and negative ways, the interpretation of historic sites today. It is an important message for all of us who visit historic places, who are curious about the presentation of the past at historic sites and monuments, and who study the past/present dynamic in classrooms and public spaces. The case study approach taken here allows a detailed look at specific places where race and perceptions of race played a role in preserving and interpreting the past. By under
— Dwight T., T. Pitcaithley
Shackel presents four case studies of commemorative Civil War sites and delivers powerful analyses of the social, political, regional and, above all, racst ideologies that generated and have sustained them... readers should embrace this book as an important step in understanding American politicized memory....
— J. B. Wolford
One of America's most gifted historical archaeologists provides a masterful examination of the relationship between race and national commemoration. Shackel's insightful analysis of four case studies deftly illustrates the unequal way in which history andmemory can be created, and brilliantly shows the way in which various constituencies can seek to control the way history is remembered. This important book demands a prominent place on the bookshelves of archaeologists, historians, site managers, museumspecialists, and everyone concerned with the way in which history is presented...
— Charles E. Orser Jr., Vanderbilt University
Shackel brings together history, anthropology, and archaeology in this must-read book that addresses a grievous wrong in the interpretation of the Civil War era.....
— Richard Sauers
Valuable reading. . . to provoke challenging conceptual questions, as any good book should.....
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• Winner, 2003 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award