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Caroline E. Janney
Caroline E. Janney is an associate professor of history at Purdue University where she teaches courses on the Civil War, Civil War memory, and women’s history. Her first book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (2008), explores the role of white southern women as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition in the immediate post-Civil War South. In Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013), she studies the ways in which Unionists and former Confederates attempted to reconcile after the war. Examining the role of veterans’ associations, women’s clubs, monument dedications, efforts to establish national battlefields, and Hollywood’s treatment of the war, this book also elaborate on the ways in which Americans used the memory of the war to shape U.S. culture and politics for more than one hundred years after the surrender at Appomattox. A former fellow at the Huntington Library and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, she is currently a fellow at Purdue University’s Center for Humanistic Studies.
Lectures
- Clasping Hands over the Bloody Chasm: Civil War Veterans’ Reunions and the Path to Reconciliation
- Reconciling and Reuniting the Nation: How Americans Have Remembered the Civil War
- Bitter to the End: Union and Confederate Women and Anti-Reconciliation Sentiment
- Women and the American Civil War
- Remembering Appomattox: From Reconciliation to Sectional Discord
- Union and Slavery: How Union Veterans Remembered the Civil War
- The Slavery Question: How Ex-Confederates Thought about Their Peculiar Institution
- Calls for Vengeance: Violence in the Wake of Lincoln’s Assassination
- Remembering Lee: Disputes among Virginia’s Men and Women over the Lee Monument
