Introduction / Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh -- Ulysses S. Grant, historian / Joan Waugh -- Shaping public memory of the Civil War : Robert E. Lee, Jubal A. Early, and Douglas Southall Freeman / Gary W. Gallagher -- Long-legged Yankee lies : the Southern textbook crusade / James M. McPherson -- Remembering the Civil War in children's literature of the 1880s and 1890s / Alice Fahs -- Decoration days : the origins of Memorial Day in North and South / David W. Blight -- The monumental legacy of Calhoun / Thomas J. Brown -- Is the war ended? : Anna Dickinson and the election of 1872 / J. Matthew Gallman -- The election of 1896 and the restructuring of Civil War memory / Patrick J. Kelly -- You can't change history by moving a rock : gender, race, and the cultural politics of Confederate memorialization / LeeAnn Whites -- War, cold war, civil rights : the Civil War Centennial in context, 1960-1965 / Jon Wiener -- Epilogue : the geography of memory / Stuart McConnell
