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Article: Battles to Create and Conduct the United States Civil War Centennial of 1961-1965.(REDISCOVERING THE CIVIL WAR)(Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965)(Book review)
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- The World and I
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- December 1, 2007
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BOOK TITLE: Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 961-1965.
BOOK AUTHOR: Robert Cook
PUBLISHER: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 299 pages. $45 hardcover.
In 1962, multitudes of American citizens were commemorating the American Civil War Centennial by attending pageants, solemn wreath laying ceremonies at monuments and in cemeteries, battlefield tours and re-enactments, roundtable discussions, speeches, exhibitions, lectures, and conferences, by reading pamphlets, history books, poetry, and novels, and by attending plays, movies, and concerts.
Lasting as long as the war itself, national, state, ...