POP CULTURE WAR
t is an old adage that wars reflect the societies that fight them. As the bloodiest of the country’s armed conflicts, it is hardly surprising that the American experience in the Civil War was influenced by, inspired, and, a collection of essays on the war and popular culture, grouped into three sections. The first consists of a dozen considerations of the war in text, with topics ranging from Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane to Shelby Foote and Jeff Shaara to Tony Horwitz’s This is followed by eight on how the war has been depicted in visual media, from movies to photography to the Gettysburg Cyclorama. The third section offers five essays looking at music and the war.
