This page was inspired by historian Holly Genovese's Confederate Memory Reading List. The listed items include books, ebooks, and articles on how Americans' memory of the U.S. Civil War developed over time, and the political uses of memory of the war since its end in 1865. Understanding the ways in which the memory of the war has been used and abused is a necessary step toward understanding modern conflicts over Confederate memorials across the country.
Race and Reunion : the Civil War in American memory by 
Black Reconstruction in America (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois) by 
Myth, Manners, and Memory by 
Inventing Stonewall Jackson : a Civil War hero in history and memory by 
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture by 
Creating a Confederate Kentucky : the lost cause and Civil War memory in a border state by 
Away down South : a history of Southern identity by 
Cities of the Dead : contesting the memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 by 
Defining Moments : African American commemoration & political culture in the South, 1863-1913 by 