We knew no North, no South”
U.S.–Mexican War Veterans and the Construction of Public Memory in the Post-Civil War United States, 1874–1897
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16769375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | ALYS D BEVERTON, Alys Beverton (0000-0003-4243-8070, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Nineteenth Century History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4658 • E-ISSN: 1743-7903 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664658.2016.1167317 |
| OpenAlex | W2343073549 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
In 1874, American veterans of the U.S.–Mexican War 1846–1848 formed the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War (NAVMW). Until the organization’s demise in 1897, NAVMW members crafted and celebrated a vision of their war with Mexico as a national triumph which had united Americans from all sections of the Union in a common cause. This article examines how, by promoting this particular memory of the war to the American public, NAVMW members sought to remind their countrymen of their shared national history, and so aid the process of reconciliation between North and South in the post-Civil War era
Demise · Economic history · National history · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · World War II · American History and Culture · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Public Administration
Ghosts of the confederacy
Sectionalism and American political development, 1880-1980
The Union War
Global Dawn
Manifest Ambition
The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
The United States and Mexico at War
Mr. Polk's Army
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
Habits of Empire
The United States and Mexico at War
The Mexican War Veterans as an Organized Group
Mr. Polk's War
Baptized in Blood
Dollars over Dominion
Civil War Pensions and the Reconstruction of Union Families
Mr. Polk's Army
Honoring the Civil War Dead
Defining Moments
Race and Reunion
Visions of the Emerald City
Remembering the Forgotten War
From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail
The Monroe Doctrine
Union Veterans and Their Government
Where Did the Other Heroes Go?' Exalting the Polko National Guard Battalions in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
To the Halls of the Montezumas
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |