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Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory (Civil War America)

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Sherman’s March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is likely one of the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths concerning the March from all kinds of sources, including African Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, or even Sherman himself. Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including commute accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American eager about the Civil War has changed through the years.

Compiling and analyzing the discordant stories across the March, and taking into account significant cultural artifacts such as George Barnard’s 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, and E. L. Doctorow’s The March, Rubin creates a cohesive narrative that unites seemingly incompatible myths and asserts the metaphorical importance of Sherman’s March to Americans’ memory of the Civil War. The book is enhanced by a digital history project, which will also be found at shermansmarch.org.

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