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By J. Christian Spielvogel

ISBN-10: 0817317759

ISBN-13: 9780817317751

Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical research of Civil struggle battlefields and parks, and the methods quite a few commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance.

The nationwide Park carrier (NPS) is understood for its position within the renovation of public websites deemed to have old, cultural, and ordinary value. In Interpreting Sacred Ground, J. Christian Spielvogel experiences the NPS’s secondary function as an interpreter or author of which means at such websites, in particular Gettysburg nationwide army Park, Harpers Ferry nationwide ancient Park, and chilly Harbor customer Center.

Spielvogel stories intimately the museums, motion pictures, guides, excursions, signage, and different media at those websites, and he stories and analyzes how they form the meanings that viewers are invited to build. notwithstanding the NPS started constructing interpretive shows within the Nineteen Nineties that highlighted slavery and emancipation as vital aspects to knowing the struggle, Spielvogel argues that the NPS in a few cases preserves outdated narratives of white reconciliation and heroic masculinity, obscuring the race-related reasons and outcomes of the warfare in addition to the war’s savagery.

The demanding situations the NPS faces in addressing those matters are many, from warding off unbalanced feedback of both the Union or the Confederacy, to foregrounding race and violence as important matters, maintaining transparent and exact renderingsof battlefield activities and methods, and contending with some of the public constituencies with their very own interpretive stakes within the conflict for public memory.

Spielvogel concludes via arguing for the nationwide Park Service’s the most important function as a severe voice in shaping twentieth-first-century Civil struggle public reminiscence and highlights the problems the corporation faces because it strives to keep up historic integrity whereas contending with antiquated renderings of the past.

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