Towns, W. Stuart,  1939- <br/><br/>
Enduring legacy  rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause /  [electronic resource] : 
W. Stuart Towns. 
 - Tuscaloosa :  University of Alabama Press,  c2012. 
 - xvii, 190 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Rhetoric, celebration, and ritual: building a collective memory in the postwar South -- Remembering the Confederacy: ceremony in the postwar South, 1865-1920s -- The road to secession and war: the oratorical defense of the Confederacy and the Old South -- Creating the myths of the war: martyrs and scapegoats of the Confederacy -- Creating the myths of Reconstruction, redemption, reconciliation, and the new and future South: the rest of the story -- The persistence of a myth: the lost cause in the modern South. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Group identity--Southern States.<br/>Speeches, addresses, etc., American--History and criticism.--Southern States<br/>English language--Rhetoric.--Southern States<br/>Memory--Social aspects--Southern States.<br/>Oratory--History.--Southern States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>Southern States--Civilization.<br/>Confederate States of America--History.<br/>Southern States--Languages--History.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F209  / .T69 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.7/13