Anne E. Marshall is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.
Marshall has illuminated an important and understudied aspect of
how a border region simultaneously departed from and reflected
broader patterns of memory. Marshall's excellent study will refine
our understanding of how contested and unpredictable memory was and
continues to be."--The American Historical Review
|"Anne Marshall's Creating a Confederate Kentucky alters the entire
field of Civil War memory study….[It] is a masterful work of
scholarship. Its prose is lucid; its research is thorough; and its
interpretative power is truly ground-breaking."--Civil War Book
Review
|"Marshall has crafted an easily read, easily comprehensible
scholarly volume. Recommended. All levels/libraries."--Choice
|"By enriching our understanding of the ways Confederate
Kentuckians, white Unionists, and African Americans interpreted the
state's participation in the Civil War, Marshall also sheds
significant light on the processes through which competing
interests claim ownership of history."--The Journal of American
History
|"An excellent book: tightly argued, richly detailed, and elegantly
written. It is a model of what a state study can do, showing the
importance of not just race, but also place, to the story of the
Lost Cause."--Civil War Monitor
|"Creating a Confederate Kentucky is a welcome addition to the
study of post-Civil War Kentucky. . . . Those who teach the history
of Kentucky and of the Civil War and Reconstruction will find this
book a valuable addition to their reading lists."--Journal of the
Civil War Era
|"Marshall's book is beautifully written and truly a pleasure to
read."--Journal of Southern History
|"Marshall's book is a good read, and it will be of much interest
to those seeking a better understanding not only of Kentucky's key
role in the 1860s, but also of how all of us have remembered the
war ever since."--Blue & Gray Magazine
|"Ideal for a range of scholars . . . . A pleasure to read."--
Journal of Historical Geography
|"A must read for all Civil War historians."--Journal of NC
Association of Historians
|"An interesting, informative book. It helps clarify the
experiences of many of us who grew up in Kentucky. . . . The book
has set a new standard."--The Kentucky Civil War Bugle
|"Examines all sides of Kentucky's Union-Confederate postwar
dialogue. . . . [A] thoughtful, carefully researched and plausibly
presented historical study, illustrated with a handful of vintage
black-and-white photographs. Highly recommended."--Midwest Book
Review
|"An intelligent narrative. . . . The author writes well and is
easy to read. . . . A valuable and serious history of the
development of Confederate memory in Kentucky and in America. . . .
An excellent book for any student of Reconstruction, the process of
reconciliation or the years after the Civil War."--TOCWOC: A Civil
War Blog
|"Rather than focusing exclusively on postwar political and
economic factors, Creating a Confederate Kentucky looks over the
longer term at Kentuckians' activities . . . by which they
commemorated the Civil War and fixed the state's remembrance of it
for sixty years following the conflict. . . . Will be a nice
addition to your Confederate/Kentucky library shelf. . . .
Excellent."--Lone Star Book Review
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