War Memorials

War Memorials
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1919
Genre: Soldiers' monuments
ISBN:

Monument Wars

Monument Wars
Author: Kirk Savage
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2011-07-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0520271335

Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
Author: Thomas J. Brown
Publisher: Civil War America
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781469653730

"This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"--