Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863–1921

Introduction : Lincoln's Promise -- Where The Grapes Of Wrath Are Stored -- The Nation, A Monument Of Empire -- Reunion : Remembering Domestic Foreign Spaces -- Retrieve The Maine! -- Memories Of A Foreign Land -- Exiles Of American Cultural Memory -- Cultural Memory In The Information Age -- That Cause Shall Not Be Betrayed -- Listening To Empire : (re)playing The Mystic Chords Of Memory After The Great War -- Epilogue : Reclaiming Lincoln's Promise?. Shannon Bontrager. Extensive And Substantial Revision Of The Author's Thesis (doctoral)--georgia State University, 2011 Titled Nationalizing The Dead : The Contested Making Of An American Commemorative Tradition From The Civil War To The Great War. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.