1st Edition
The Unfinished Exhibition Visualizing Myth, Memory, and the Shadow of the Civil War in Centennial America
By Susanna W. Gold
Copyright 2017
202 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four years of Civil War, and why. Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition -- a spectacular international event celebrating one hundred years of American strength, unity, and freedom -- took place in the immediate wake of this trauma of war and the failures of... Read more
Chapter 1: The Centennial Memoryscape
Chapter 2: The Civil War Revisited
Chapter 3: Battling Gettysburg
Chapter 4: The Emancipationist Civil War
Chapter 5: The African American Claim to the Centennial
Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Memory
Biography
Susanna W. Gold is an independent historian and curator of 19th- and 20th-century American art and culture. She has taught at Temple University, the Barnes Foundation, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her Ph.D. She has organized and written catalogs for a number of exhibitions in Philadelphia-area institutions.
