This War Ain't Over

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland''s "A Lincoln Portrait," it was hard to miss America''s fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and polit...