Suggested Reading
The books and articles on this suggested reading list offer insight into the preservation of the Civil War's emancipationist memory in the Shenandoah Valley and the broader historiography of Civil War memory.
Baldau, Catherine, ed. “To Emancipate the Mind and Soul”: Storer College, 1867-1955. Harpers Ferry, WV: Harpers Ferry Park Association, 2017.
Blair, William. Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Blight, David W. Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Clark, Kathleen Ann. Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Clark, Kathleen Ann. "Making History: African American Commemoration Celebrations in Augusta, Georgia, 1865-1913." In Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory, edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson, 27-45. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Cook, Robert J. Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Cox, Karen L. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Cox, Karen L. No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. Chapel Hill, NC: A Ferris and Ferris Book, 2021.
Denkler, Ann. Writing Freedom into Narratives of Racial Injustice in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2020.
Domby, Adam H. The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Fahs, Alice and Joan Waugh, eds. The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Frye, Dennis E., and Catherine Magi Oliver. Confluence: Harpers Ferry as Destiny. Harpers Ferry, WV: Harpers Ferry Park Association, 2019.
Gallagher, Gary W. and Alan T. Nolan, eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Gannon, Barbara A. The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Gilpin, R. Blakeslee. John Brown Still Lives: America's Reckoning with Violence, Equality, & Change. Chapel Hill: University North Carolina Press, 2011.
Goldfield, David. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Heinrich, Robert and Deborah Harding. From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.
Janney, Caroline E. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Janney, Caroline E. “Written in Stone: Gender, Race, and the Heyward Shepherd Memorial.” Civil War History 52 (June 2006): 117-141.
Johnson, Mary. "An 'ever present bone of contention': The Heyward Shepherd Memorial." West Virginia History 56 (1997): 1-26.
Jones, Nancy Bondurant. An African American Community of Hope: Zenda: 1869-1930. McGaheysville, VA: Long’s Chapel Preservation Society, 2007.
Kachun, Mitch. Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
Levin, Kevin M. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
McElya, Micki. “Commemorating the Color Line: The National Mammy Monument Controversy of the 1920s,” In Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory, edited by Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson, 203-218. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Moyer, Teresa S. and Paul A. Shackle, The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press, 2008.
Neff, John R. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Noyalas, Jonathan A. Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civi War Era. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021.
Quarles, Benjamin. Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown. New York: DaCapo Press, 2001.
Reidy, Joseph P. Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom & Equality in the Twilight of Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Russo, Peggy A. and Paul Finkelman, eds. Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.
Savage, Kirk. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Shackel, Paul A. Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press, 2003.
Silber, Nina. This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Spielvogel, J. Christian. Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Sutton, Robert K., ed. Rally on the High Ground: The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War. Fort Washington, PA: Eastern National, 2001.