Emerging Civil War host Chris Mackowski interviews Jennifer Murray and John Kinder about their new collection of essays they’ve edited, They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America. If you are interested in Civil War Memory, this is a video for you. The discussion looks at how the Civil War is remembered today, not in academic books but in clothing, country music, and at sites throughout the country. As Jennifer Murray says in the interview, the debate over the meaning of the Civil War meant that they had to revise the book several times over the last year because the battles are still going on.
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