Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) and index.

I: The rites of memory: differing perspectives -- "A strong force of ladies" : women, politics, and Confederate memorial associations in nineteenth-century Raleigh / Catherine W. Bishir -- Marking Union victory in the South : the construction of the National Cemetery system / Catherine W. Zipf -- Making history : African American commemorative celebrations in Augusta, Georgia, 1865-1913 / Kathleen Clark -- "Woman's hand and heart and deathless love" : white women and the commemorative impulse in the New South / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- II: Heroes and heroines of the south -- The great Lee Chapel controversy and the "little group of willful women" who saved the shrine of the South / Pamela H. Simpson -- Monument Avenue, Richmond : a unique American boulevard / Richard Guy Wilson -- Personalizing the political : the Davis family circle in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery / M. Anna Fariello -- The virtuous soldier : constructing a usable Confederate past in Franklin, Tennessee / David Currey -- III: Celebtration and responses to the north -- The Confederate Monument at Arlington : a token of reconciliation / Karen L. Cox -- Planning a temple to the lost cause : the Confederate "battle abbey" / William M.S. Rasmussen -- Gratitude and gender wars : monuments to the women of the sixties / Cynthia Mills -- IV: Changing times, reshaping history -- Commemorating the color line : the national mammy monument controversy of the 1920s / Micki McElya -- Granite stopped time : Stone Mountain Memorial and the representation of White Southern identity / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- Contesting the sacred : preservation and meaning on Richmond's Monument Avenue / Brian Black and Bryn Varley.