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How did the memorialization of the dead transition into the conservation of the southern identity? -- R. King | How did the memorialization of the dead transition into the conservation of the southern identity? -- R. King | ||
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| + | Why is it "woman's privilege" to raise up Civil War monuments (as Evans was quoted as saying in his memorial day speech)? Why do men only lay the cornerstone for the monuments?- Aaskins | ||
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| + | Did anyone else find Evans' speech similar to Pericles' funerary oration in its description of women and their post-war roles?- Aaskins | ||
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| + | Is it odd or unexpected that women became the principal advocates for "memory preservation" in the south (as demonstrated in Augusta) through the formations of female memorial groups? - Aaskins | ||
