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 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html