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Michele McAloon
Civil War Memory, Now
42 minutes Posted Jan 30, 2026 at 7:00 am.
Setting The Stakes
Introducing The Historians
How The Book Came Together
What Civil War Memory Means
Lost Cause And Its Afterlives
Personal Memory Vs Public Monuments
Reconstruction’s Legacy And Law
Why Bases Were Named For Confederates
The Renaming, Reversal, And Loopholes
Is It “Just A Name”?
Civil Wars, Enemies, And Exceptions
Demographic Change And Shifting Memory
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Send us Fan Mail Connect with Michele at https://www.bookclues.com Headlines keep tossing around the phrase “civil war,” but what are we really talking about when we invoke that history today? We sit down with historians John Kinder and Jennifer Murray, co-editors of They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America, to unpack how memory gets made—and why it gets weaponized. From the Lost Cause to the language of conflict we see online, we explore the difference ...