[PDF] The Confederate Battle Flag eBook

Author : John M. COSKI
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029866

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In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To some, this piece of cloth is a symbol of white supremacy and enduring racial injustice; to others, it represents a rich Southern heritage and an essential link to a glorious past. Polarizing Americans, these flag wars reveal the profound--and still unhealed--schisms that have plagued the country since the Civil War. The Confederate Battle Flag is the first comprehensive history of this contested symbol. Transcending conventional partisanship, John Coski reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War. He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag's use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for. Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history.

Author : Devereaux D. Cannon
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1994-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455604395

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A Civil War historian provides an in-depth look at Confederate flags, covering their symbolism, historical background, and political significance. In the decades that followed the fall of the Confederate States of America, much information on the flags of the member states was lost. By the same token, many misunderstandings about these flags have persisted in popular myth. In The Flags of the Confederacy, Devereaux Cannon provides an authoritative and detailed overview of these flags and their various meanings. Devereaux provides essential context for each flag with an overview of the civil and political structures of the Confederate States of America. He also delves into the many stories surrounding each flag’s development and usage, providing both an essential historical reference and a rare window into Confederate life.

Author : Robert E. Bonner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 069118657X

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As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy sustained itself for as long as it did by cultivating the allegiances of countless ordinary citizens. Bonner also comments more broadly on flag passions--those intense emotional reactions to waving pieces of cloth that inflame patriots to kill and die. Colors and Blood depicts a pervasive flag culture that set the emotional tone of the Civil War in the Union as well as the Confederacy. Northerners and southerners alike devoted incredible energy to flags, but the Confederate project was unique in creating a set of national symbols from scratch. In describing the activities of white southerners who designed, sewed, celebrated, sang about, and bled for their new country's most visible symbols, the book charts the emergence of Confederate nationalism. Theatrical flag performances that cast secession in a melodramatic mode both amplified and contained patriotic emotions, contributing to a flag-centered popular patriotism that motivated true believers to defy and sacrifice. This wartime flag culture nourished Confederate nationalism for four years, but flags' martial associations ultimately eclipsed their expression of political independence. After 1865, conquered banners evoked valor and heroism while obscuring the ideology of a slaveholders' rebellion, and white southerners recast the totems of Confederate nationalism as relics of the Lost Cause. At the heart of this story is the tremendous capacity of bloodshed to infuse symbols with emotional power. Confederate flag culture, black southerners' charged relationship to the Stars and Stripes, contemporary efforts to banish the Southern Cross, and arguments over burning the Star Spangled Banner have this in common: all demonstrate Americans' passionate relationship with symbols that have been imaginatively soaked in blood.

Author : Richard Rollins
Publisher : Rank and File Publishers
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :

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A unique study that analyzes the most powerful symbol of the Civil War from the perspective of both sides. Includes 41 full-color photos of flags captured at Gettysburg.

Author : Edward L. Widmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0190621834

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From 2011 to 2015, the New York Times Op-Ed section hosted the Disunion blog, an online series launched to commemorate the long string of anniversaries over the five-year course of America's most destructive and divisive conflict. Celebrated upon publication for their startling originality and uncanny ability to convey immediacy and inspire fresh thought, the Disunion pieces were an integral part of the Civil War's sesquicentennial celebrations and indeed came to define them. Now, for the first time, the best essays selected from the entirety of the blog are collected in book form, and are presented alongside original introductions. Uniting once again, Edward L. Widmer, George Kalogerakis, and Clay Risen have curated a unique and unforgettable history of the Civil War, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox.

Author : Kent Masterson Brown
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1455618950

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Who actually designed the first Confederate flag? Initially produced without permission or guidance from the Confederate government, the first St. Andrew's Cross battle flags were stitched in secret by a group of Virginian women. The flag was obviously a military necessity, as it unified the troops under an identifiable banner. This striking design was quickly adopted as an official banner. Illustrations depict the creation of the celebrated flag as it evolved through a series of designs. The symbol of a proud people, the story of this flag will inspire all true Southerners.

Author : Anne Cunningham
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534502327

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Is it a symbol of pride in one's heritage or an ugly reminder of slavery and the fruits of racism? The issue of whether the Confederate flag belongs in front of government buildings, or even on Southern pride paraphernalia, has been a hot button for more than a century, long after the Civil War was fought and won. This book takes a close look at the flag's origins, its controversial history, what meaning it has for Americans living today, and the ongoing debate on its use and display.

Author : Hal Marcovitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1422287440

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The issue of slavery had divided the nation for decades, but problems came to a head after the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. Fearing that Lincoln would attempt to abolish slavery, the legislatures of 11 southern states voted to withdraw from the United States and create a new nation, the Confederate States of America. This would result in four bloody years of Civil War in which more than 600,000 Americans were killed. The Confederacy adopted several flags between 1861 and 1865; the best known today is the battle flag, which featured a blue saltire cross on a red background. To some people, the Confederate flag is a proud symbol of Southern heritage and bravery. Others, however, view the Confederate flag as a symbol that represents the enslavement and oppression of African Americans. As a result, the Confederate flag is among the most controversial of American symbols.

Author : Karin Crelling
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Flags
ISBN :

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I was born and raised in Germany and came to the United States in 1996. In 2010 I became an American citizen, via the "Naturalization" process. I went back to school in 2013 and, being always interested in history, took a liking to early US history. The Civil War fascinated me the most, and the ongoing debate over what the war was fought over created my desire to investigate why the Confederate Battle Flag is so differently perceived in my old and new home country. The Confederate Flag disrupts the public sphere in the US, but not as much in Europe. Recent debates over the Confederate Battle Flag in the US sparked my interest in how its perception has changed over the decades since 1865. In Europe it is still mainly a symbol for rebellion, not a reminder of violation of human rights and slavery. Specifically, in Germany the flag was flown during the Velvet Revolutions in the late 1980s. These rebellions eventually led to political changes and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Researching the educational system in both countries to distinguish how differently the era of the American Civil War is taught in schools here and abroad suggests that there is a strong relationship between those educational systems and how the Confederate Flag is appropriated in popular culture. Using Critical Theory, I explore the reasons behind that difference in awareness of its representation. I am comparing popular culture creations like movies, fashion, and music that use the image of the Confederate Battle Flag in the United States and Germany. It is important to understand how a person's upbringing can shape their reality. I will also briefly discuss other European countries like Ireland, Russia and Italy to show how these nations have their own unique understanding of what the Confederate Battle Flag represents.