{"id":923,"date":"2012-08-31T18:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?p=923"},"modified":"2012-08-31T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:41:24","slug":"the-civil-war-in-our-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/2012\/08\/31\/the-civil-war-in-our-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"the Civil War in our memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides my fascination with the mindset of slavery advocates, I&#8217;m starting to take a keen interest in Americans&#8217; attitudes (if they have them) about the war. Again, the work of David Blight on Civil War in American Memory has been wonderfully illuminating.<\/p>\n<p>I need to study more about the collective memory surrounding the &#8220;cause lost&#8221; theories, and also the morphing patriotism of Sons and Daughters Of&#8230; organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Here, on the west coast, we have Highway 99. It was the original north-south highway from Canada to Mexico, subsequently replaced by Interstate 5. At one time it was the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a designation long-since legislated away. But remnants remain, which fascinate me. A couple photos, the recent one with The AndyBear, who was five at the time. This is the marker to be found in Jefferson Davis Park, which has a Facebook page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Jefferson-Davis-Park\/111684485552784\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Jefferson-Davis-Park\/111684485552784<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/VancouverJDH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-924 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/VancouverJDH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/VancouverJDH.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/VancouverJDH-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_20110517_180308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-925\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_20110517_180308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_20110517_180308.jpg 480w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_20110517_180308-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides my fascination with the mindset of slavery advocates, I&#8217;m starting to take a keen interest in Americans&#8217; attitudes (if they have them) about the war. Again, the work of David Blight on Civil War in American Memory has been wonderfully illuminating. I need to study more about the collective memory surrounding the &#8220;cause lost&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11236,11240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}