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Book review: Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South.

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   Louisiana State University Press, 2021. $45.00   How does a nation celebrate itself when it is in many ways still at war with itself? Jack Noe tackles this question in his engaging study of nationalism and identity in the post-Civil War South through the lens of Independence Day celebrations… Continue reading

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University of Exeter: Review: ‘The “Not Yet” of the Nineteenth-Century U.S.’, BrANCA Symposium

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Primarily literary in focus, the panellists nevertheless marshalled current political and institutional debates through and alongside their readings of texts, demonstrating the ways in which nineteenth-century U.S. scholarship often hinges on interdisciplinary methodologies. Continue reading