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Commemoration of the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article

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Commemoration of the American Civil War


00:00:24 1 Memorial Day
00:01:03 2 Lost Cause of the Confederacy
00:01:44 3 Grant's Tomb
00:02:34 4 Gettysburg Battlefield
00:03:11 5 Lincoln Memorial
00:03:40 6 American Civil War Centennial (100)
00:05:54 7 Civil War Sesquicentennial (150)
00:06:53 7.1 Governmental support
00:07:02 7.1.1 National Park Service
00:08:50 7.1.2 Federal funding and grants
00:09:53 7.1.2.1 NPS federal funding
00:10:52 7.1.2.2 Civil War Battlefield Preservation Program (CWBPP)
00:11:50 7.1.3 State funding and grants
00:16:14 7.1.4 Private funding
00:16:36 7.2 Reenactments
00:18:55 7.2.1 Location and funding
00:20:08 7.2.2 NPS versus reenactment groups
00:21:38 7.2.3 African American reenactors
00:24:55 7.2.4 Women reenactors
00:25:52 7.2.5 Controversy
00:27:05 7.3 Other commemoration
00:27:41 7.3.1 Ken Burns' project
00:28:46 7.3.2 States
00:30:24 7.3.2.1 Arkansas
00:32:18 7.3.2.2 Georgia
00:35:07 7.3.2.3 New York
00:35:52 7.3.2.4 South Carolina
00:37:03 7.3.2.5 Texas
00:38:13 7.3.2.6 Virginia
00:40:03 7.4 Art
00:42:54 7.4.1 Gettysburg Cyclorama
00:45:46 7.4.2 Music
00:47:34 7.4.3 Theater
00:48:54 7.5 Digital media
00:49:45 7.5.1 Mobile apps
00:50:47 7.5.2 State tourism in digital media
00:52:09 7.5.3 Education
00:52:52 7.5.3.1 Education resources
00:55:14 7.5.4 Social media
00:56:17 7.6 Controversy
00:57:40 8 Hollywood
00:58:03 8.1 Filmography
00:58:12 9 See also
00:58:57 10 Notes
00:59:05 11 Further reading
00:59:14 11.1 Memory
01:02:46 11.2 Re-enactment
01:05:01 11.3 Popular culture, novels, films
01:06:11 11.4 Art and music
01:07:12 11.5 Tour guides



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The commemoration of the American Civil War is based on the memories of the Civil War that Americans have shaped according to their political, social and cultural circumstances and needs, starting with the Gettysburg Address and the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery in 1863. Confederates, both veterans and women, were especially active in forging the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.