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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