ABSTRACT

Following continued conflicts over Confederate monuments in American society, this study explores Civil War memory encapsulated in newspaper coverage of the initial construction and dedication of four Confederate monuments. Discourse and narrative analyses of 258 articles published in seven US newspapers in the 1890s and 1920s examine how the American public negotiated terms of heroes, victims, and villains, largely in a hegemonic “Lost Cause” myth that took primacy over fact, thus distorting collective memory of the war.

中文翻译：

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巩固他们的英雄：同盟纪念碑的历史报纸报道

摘要

在美国社会围绕同盟纪念碑的持续冲突之后，本研究探讨了内战记忆，这些记忆包含在报纸报道中，对四个同盟纪念碑的初始建设和奉献进行了报道。对 1890 年代和 1920 年代在 7 家美国报纸上发表的 258 篇文章的话语和叙述分析研究了美国公众如何就英雄、受害者和恶棍的条款进行谈判，主要是在一个霸权的“失败的原因”神话中，这种神话优先于事实，从而扭曲了集体战争的记忆。