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The Confederate Battle Flag: America"s Most Embattled Emblem

In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To some, this piece of cloth is a symbol of white supremacy and enduring racial injustice; to others, it represents a rich Southern heritage and an essential link to a glorious past. Polarizing Americans, these “flag wars” reveal the profound–and still unhealed–schisms that have plagued the country since the Civil War.

The Confederate Battle Flag is the first comprehensive history of this contested symbol. Transcending conventional partisanship, John Coski reveals the flag’s origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War. He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag’s use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for. Pursuing the flag’s conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history.

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This gives a detailed history of the confederate flag(s) and its use for a variety of purposes in its long history. It truly means many things to many people–history and heritage and in equal measure oppression and ostracism. Both are right. The author does not take sides but allows each side to understand how others’ perceeptions are shaped. Superb

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The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem Details

• Author: John M. Coski ( Download PDF : )


• ISBN-10: 0674019830


• ISBN-13: 978-0674019836


• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1.1 x 9 inches


• Paperback: 448 pages


• Publisher: Belknap Press; Reprint edition (April 30, 2006)


• Language: English

About the Author

John M. Coski is Historian and Library Director at The Museum of the Confederacy.

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