ebooks Decentering Discussions on Religion and State: Emerging Narratives; Challenging Perspectives by From Lexington Books in History

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Ashdown and Caudill explain how one of the Civil War's most colorful and controversial characters became a legend during the war and evolved into a mythical figure after the war and into the 21st century through literature; art; cinema; and TV. As Tony Horwitz discovered in Confederates in the Attic; the legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest continues to polarize the South even today as a symbol of the Lost Cause and hero to working-class Southerners on one hand; and emblem of slavery and lingering racial tensions on the other.