James Marten (Editor) JAMES MARTEN is professor of history at Marquette University and past President of the Society of Civil War Historians. He has written or edited a number of books on the sectional conflict, including The Children's Civil War (1998); Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front (2003); Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011); Children and Youth during the Civil War Era (2012); and America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (2014).Caroline E. Janney (Editor) CAROLINE E. JANNEY is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is a past president of the Society of Civil War Historians and the author or editor of several books including Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (2008); Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013); and Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia (2018).

Assembling essays from seasoned scholars and early career historians alike, this well-conceived volume demonstrates the yet untapped potential of memory studies to reveal new insights about the Civil War’s long shadow. Borrowing approaches from material culture studies and histories of consumer culture, Buying & Selling Civil War Memory reveals how the war, in ways big and small, continued to annex ordinary lives at century's end.

James Marten (Editor) JAMES MARTEN is professor of history at Marquette University and past President of the Society of Civil War Historians. He has written or edited a number of books on the sectional conflict, including The Children's Civil War (1998); Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front (2003); Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011); Children and Youth during the Civil War Era (2012); and America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (2014).Caroline E. Janney (Editor) CAROLINE E. JANNEY is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. She is a past president of the Society of Civil War Historians and the author or editor of several books including Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (2008); Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013); and Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia (2018).

Assembling essays from seasoned scholars and early career historians alike, this well-conceived volume demonstrates the yet untapped potential of memory studies to reveal new insights about the Civil War’s long shadow. Borrowing approaches from material culture studies and histories of consumer culture, Buying & Selling Civil War Memory reveals how the war, in ways big and small, continued to annex ordinary lives at century's end.