Troubled commemoration : the American Civil War centennial, 1961-1965 /
In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's hist...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
©2007.
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Series: | Making the modern South.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |