Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
It's been interesting and instructive to see the ongoing debate over Confederate iconography unfold from the vantage point of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, one of the nation's premier centers of Civil War memory. Many of the conversations taking place in town are similar to ones happening around the country, but a few elements have been noteworthy. In Gettysburg, flag debates have by and large revolved around First Amendment rights, honoring ancestors and their cause, and the demands of heritage tourism, and not around civic identity or the appropriateness of the flag's use as a symbol of the state. [excerpt]
Copyright Note
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Recommended Citation
Titus, Jill. "Fighting Civil Rights and the Cold War: Confederate Monuments at Gettysburg." History New: The Magazine of the American Association for State and Local History 71, no. 4 (2016). pp. 12-17.
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Original version available from the publisher at: http://about.aaslh.org/history-news/