Sentences with phrase «civil war memorial»

At times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raised.

We fail in our responsibility to history when we do not permit ourselves to see Civil War memorials from a Romantic point of view, and when we fail to recognize the phrase «lost cause» as a shorthand for a morally complex, tragic understanding of the South's defeat.

Long cast as the home of hospitality, green tomatoes, and civil war memorials, the South is pushing back against a more current War of Northern Aggression.

He began casting bronze for Civil War memorials, -LSB-...]

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A nurse during the Civil War, Whitman witnessed its carnage up close and his post-war writings reflect sorrow and compassion for the wounded and dead, with the Memorial including his words, «Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.»

While Confederate statues and monuments around the nation get removed, defaced, covered up or toppled, some new memorials are being erected, by people who insist their only purpose is to honor Civil War soldiers who died for the South.

Amy Waldman's The Submission, a novel in which a Muslim American architect wins the commission for a 9/11 memorial, and Adam Goodheart's 1861: The Civil War Awakening, a wonderfully dense, almost day - to - day portrait of America coming apart.

Memorial Day officially begin in May 1868, when we honored Civil War soldiers at Arlington National Cemetary by putting flowers on there graves.

Memorial Day officially began in May 1868, when we honored Civil War soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery by putting flowers on their graves.

As one of the longest - standing observance holidays, Memorial Day — once known as Decoration Day — grew out of the need for national cemeteries to bury the fallen from the deadliest war in US history, the Civil Wwar in US history, the Civil WarWar.

So, the events of the past few years — among them the violence of white supremacists in Charlottesville, the church shootings in Charleston, the national debate over Confederate flags and memorials — certainly shaped the book, especially as they emphasize the extent to which the history of our country is built around the armature of slavery and the Civil War, and how far we still are from putting those issues behind us.

Memorial Day began after the U.S. Civil War to honor the fallen soldiers.

By this standard, the Gettysburg Address, the Declaration of Independence, and scholarly recreations of the Civil War and the origins of America would have shut down memorials at Gettysburg and in Philadelphia long ago.

A multimedia installation of environmental portraits of teenagers displaced by the Syrian Civil War at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Begun in 1948, Motherwell's Elegies functioned as the artist's memorial to the Spanish Civil War, an event that had come to symbolize for him the human tragedies of oppression and injustice.

And they got it: Van Dyck's ostentatious image of upper - class magnificence becomes a tragic memorial to a bloody conflict when you know that both these young men would die in the civil war.

Wikipedia notes: «Memorial Day formerly occurred on May 30, and some, such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), advocate returning to this fixed date, although the significance of the date is tenuous.

Reading about Justice Jackson as a student, listening to a man speak that Memorial Day in 1909 about the civil war, peace and justice, when the speaker would later become the Justice's law partner, brought to mind the bonds lawyers develop with each other as time passes.