To the Heroic Dead
Course | Registration opens 8/4/2025 8:00 AM EST
In this course, an overview of the history of Civil War memorialization in the North and the South including the development of Memorial Day and Confederate Decoration Day ceremonies, the process for funding, and erecting memorials will be covered. Given the current debates surrounding Confederate monuments and their place in 21st century America, particular emphasis will be given to the fashioning of the Southern Lost Cause and the meaning of postwar Confederate identity.
Joy Giguere
Joy Giguere is an associate professor of history at Penn State York and holds her Ph.D. in history from the University of Maine. She teaches courses in American history, medical history, African American history, history of technology, the Civil War era, and death and mourning. She is the author of Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival (University of Tennessee Press, 2014) and Pleasure Grounds of Death: Society, Culture, and the Rural Cemetery in 19th Century America (forthcoming, University of Michigan).