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Book Talk at the Library of Virginia
Thursday, June 12, 2008
_Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the
Lost Cause_ by Caroline E. Janney
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
FREE EVENT
Caroline E. Janney discusses and signs _Burying the Dead but Not the Past_,
her new book that restores the place of southern white women as central to
the Lost Cause Movement as the creators and purveyors of Confederate
tradition between 1865 and 1915. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial
Associations relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000
soldiers, nearly 28 percent of the 260,000 Confederate soldiers who perished
in the war. Janney argues that in identifying themselves as mothers and
daughters in mourning, LMA members crafted a sympathetic Confederate
position that Republicans, northerners, and, in some cases, southern African
Americans, could find palatable.
Caroline Janney is assistant professor of history at Purdue Univeristy.
The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street in downtown
Richmond. Free parking is available underneath the building.
_Burying the Dead but Not the Past_ is available for purchase in the Virginia
Shop at the Library of Virginia:
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwedo/shop.htm .
www.lva.virginia.gov
804.692.3500
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