Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War

by Cody Marrs

How the Civil War endures in American life through literature and culture.

Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne Medal

The American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few other events. The story of the war has been retold in countless films, novels, poems, memoirs, plays, sculptures, and monuments. Often remembered as an emancipatory struggle, as an attempt to destroy slavery in America now and forever,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421436655
• ISBN13: 9781421436654
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher