Gerald J Prokopowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 966057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald J Prokopowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Prokopowicz |
| SIGNATURE | PROKOPOWICZ G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South
Journal Article Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South Get access Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South. By Jack D Noe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. x, 232 pp. $45.00.) Gerald J Prokopowicz Gerald J Prokopowicz East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: …
The Common Soldier of the Civil War: His Rise and Fall
This historiographical essay looks at the concept of the so-called common soldier of the Civil War, as it has evolved in the writing of scholarly and popular historians since the Second World War. It organizes the historiography into three eras, the first defined by Bell Wiley's books about "Johnny Reb" (1943) and "Billy Yank" (1952). The second era, commencing after the Vietnam war, saw challenges to Wiley's interpretation of Civil War soldiers …
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
In 1943 Bell Irvin Wiley's The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy revolutionized Civil War military history by focusing on the hundreds of thousands of men who fought in the ranks, rather than just the generals who gave the orders. Three-quarters of a century later, Amy Murrell Taylor's Embattled Freedom carries the revolution a long-overdue step further by drawing our attention to the half million people who became refugee…
Everybody's History: Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past
The term public history usually refers to history presented in museums (for the people) or to oral histories (of the people). Keith A. Erekson reminds us that it also encompasses history practiced by the people, in his insightful study of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society (sihs) and its Lincoln Inquiry that flourished from 1920 to 1939. The Lincoln Inquiry consisted of homemakers, judges, genealogists, history professors, descendants of…
Lincoln
All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862
All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
In 1943 Bell Irvin Wiley's The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy revolutionized Civil War military history by focusing on the hundreds of thousands of men who fought in the ranks, rather than just the generals who gave the orders. Three-quarters of a century later, Amy Murrell Taylor's Embattled Freedom carries the revolution a long-overdue step further by drawing our attention to the half million people who became refugee…
Everybody's History: Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past
The term public history usually refers to history presented in museums (for the people) or to oral histories (of the people). Keith A. Erekson reminds us that it also encompasses history practiced by the people, in his insightful study of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society (sihs) and its Lincoln Inquiry that flourished from 1920 to 1939. The Lincoln Inquiry consisted of homemakers, judges, genealogists, history professors, descendants of…
All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862
All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862
Lincoln
Everybody's History: Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past
The term public history usually refers to history presented in museums (for the people) or to oral histories (of the people). Keith A. Erekson reminds us that it also encompasses history practiced by the people, in his insightful study of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society (sihs) and its Lincoln Inquiry that flourished from 1920 to 1939. The Lincoln Inquiry consisted of homemakers, judges, genealogists, history professors, descendants of…
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
In 1943 Bell Irvin Wiley's The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy revolutionized Civil War military history by focusing on the hundreds of thousands of men who fought in the ranks, rather than just the generals who gave the orders. Three-quarters of a century later, Amy Murrell Taylor's Embattled Freedom carries the revolution a long-overdue step further by drawing our attention to the half million people who became refugee…
The Common Soldier of the Civil War: His Rise and Fall
This historiographical essay looks at the concept of the so-called common soldier of the Civil War, as it has evolved in the writing of scholarly and popular historians since the Second World War. It organizes the historiography into three eras, the first defined by Bell Wiley's books about "Johnny Reb" (1943) and "Billy Yank" (1952). The second era, commencing after the Vietnam war, saw challenges to Wiley's interpretation of Civil War soldiers …
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South
Journal Article Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South Get access Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South. By Jack D Noe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. x, 232 pp. $45.00.) Gerald J Prokopowicz Gerald J Prokopowicz East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: …
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