GENERAL WORKS
Bracevich, Andrew. The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War.
2006.
Englehardt, Tom. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a
Generation. 1995.
Grossman, Dave. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society.
Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Howard, Michael. War and the Liberal Conscience. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 1986.
Kammen, Michael. The Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in
American Culture. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Mayo, James M. War Memorials as Political Landscape: The American Experience and
Beyond. 1988.
O’Leary, Cecilia. To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism. 1999.
Piehler, G. Kurt. Remembering War the American Way. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books,
2004.
Rollins, Peter C., and John E. O’Connor., eds. Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and
History. 2008.
Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier.
1973.
_________. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization,
1800-1890. 1985.
Winter, Jay. Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the 20th
Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
COLONIAL AMERICA
Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origin of American Identity. New
York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Purcell, Sarah J. Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism,
1776-1820. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Young, Alfred Fabian. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American
Revolution. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2000.
WAR OF 1812
TEXAS INDEPENDENCE
Flores, Richard. Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol. 2002.
MEXICAN WAR
CIVIL WAR
Ashdown, Paul, and Edward Caudill. The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and
Legend. The American Crisis Series. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.
Blair, William. Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 18651914. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
2004.
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA:
The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 2002.
Brown, Thomas J. The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History with
Documents. Bedford Series in History and Culture. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and its Legacies.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Cimprich, John. Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory. Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
Clarke, Frances. “‘Let All Nations See’: Civil War Nationalism and the Memorialization of
Wartime Voluntarism.” Civil War History (March 2006): 66-93.
Cloyd, Benjamin. Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory. Baton Rouge,
LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
Coski, John M., The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem. Cambridge,
MA: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 2005.
Cullen, Jim. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Donald, David. Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era. New York, NY: Vintage
Books, 1956.
Fahs, Alice, and Joan Waugh. The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Civil War
America Series. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Fellman, Michael. The Making of Robert E. Lee. New York, NY: Random House, 2000.
Foster, Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the
New South. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Gallagher, Gary W. Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape
What We Know About the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 2008.
Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana
State University Press, 2004.
Gallagher, Gary W., and Alan T. Nolan, eds. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Gallagher, Gary W., and Joan Waugh, eds. Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict over
the American Civil War. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 2009.
Gold, Susanna W. “‘Fighting It Over Again’: The Battle of Gettysburg at the 1876 Exposition”
Civil War History 54 (September 2008): 277-310.
Goldfield, David R. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and the Civil War. Baton
Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 2004.
Gordon, Lesley J. General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend. Chapel Hill, NC: University
of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Harris, M. Keith. “Slavery, Emancipation, and Veterans of the Union Cause: Commemorating
Freedom in the Era of Reconciliation, 1885-1915.” Civil War History (September
2007): 264-90.
Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New
York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1998.
Jordan, Brian Matthew. “‘Living Monuments’: Union Veteran Amputees and the Embodied
Memory of the Civil War.” Civil War History 57 (June 2011): 121-52.
Keller, Christian B. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War
Memory. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2010.
Marshall, Anne. Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a
Border State. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 2010.
Matthews, Gary R. Basil Wilson Duke, C.S.A.: The Right Man in the Right Place. Lexington,
KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
McConnell, Stuart. Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
McMichael, Kelly. Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas. Texas
State Historical Association, 2009.
Miller, Brian Craig. John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory. Knoxville, TN:
University of Tennessee Press, 2010.
Murray, Jennifer M. “‘Far Above Our Poor Power to Add or Detract’: National Park Service
Administration of the Gettysburg Battlefield, 1933-1938.” Civil War History 55 (March
2009): 56-81.
Neely, Mark E., Jr., and Harold Holzer. The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War
North. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
2000.
Neely, Mark E., Jr., Harold Holzer, and Gabor S. Boritt. The Confederate Image: Prints of the
Lost Cause. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000.
Neff, John R. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of
Reconciliation. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Nolan, Alan T. Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War Memory. Chapel Hill,
NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Smith, Timothy B. A Chickamauga Memorial: The Establishment of America’s First Civil War
National Military Park. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2009.
________. The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890s and the
Establishment of America’s First Five Military Parks. Knoxville, TN: University of
Tennessee Press, 2008.
________. This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil
War National Military Park. Voices of the Civil War Series. Knoxville, TN: University
of Tennessee Press, 2006.
Steers, Edward, Jr. Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our
Greatest President. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Tanner, Robert G. Retreat to Victory?: Confederate Strategy Revisited. The American Crisis
Series. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
Weeks, Jim. “A Different View of Gettysburg: Play, Memory, and Race at the Civil War’s
Greatest Shrine.” Civil War History 50 (March 2004): 175-91.
________. Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine. Princeton, NY: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
Wills, Brian Steel. Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema. Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007.
Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1962.
INDIAN WARS
Greene, Jerome. Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West,
1864-1898. Savas Beatie, 2007.
Rosenberg, Bruce. Custer and the Epic of Defeat. 1974.
WORLD WAR I
Adams, Michael C. C. The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Bodnar, John. The “Good War” in American Memory. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2010.
Budreau, Lisa. Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America,
1919-1933. 2009.
DeBauche, Leslie M. Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I. 1997.
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny Got His Gun.
WORLD WAR II
Adams, Michael C. C. The Best War Ever: America and World War II. 1994.
Bodnar, John E. The “Good War” in American Memory. 2010.
Cameron, Craig M. American Samurai: Myth, Imagination, and the Conduct of Battle in the
First Marine Division, 1941-1951. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
Linderman, Gerald F. The World Within War: America’s Combat Experience in World War II.
Rosenberg, Emily S. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. 2003.
Smith, Rex Alan. Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific.
Abbeville Press, 2002.
Terkel, Studs. The Good War.
Weingartner, James J. Americans, Germans, and War Crimes Justice: Law, Memory, and “The
Good War.” Praeger, 2011.
KOREAN WAR
VIETNAM WAR
Allen, Michael J. Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam
War. 2009.
Buzzanco, Robert. Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life.
Divine, Robert. “Vietnam Reconsidered.” Diplomatic History 12:1 (Winter 1998), 79-93.
Duiker, William J. Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam. McGrawHill, 2001.
Hagopian, Patrick. The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the
Politics of Healing. 2009.
McMahon, Robert. “Contested Memory: The Vietnam War and American Society, 1975-2001.”
Diplomatic History 26:2 (Spring 2002), 159-184.
McNamara, Robert S. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Vintage/Random
House, 1996.
Wolff, Tobias. In Pharoah’s Army: Memories of a Lost War. New York, NY: Vintage Books,
1995.
COLD WAR
Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History.
IRAQ WAR