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The Ghosts of Horseshoe Bend Myth, Memory, and the Making of a National Battlefield.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Ghosts of Horseshoe Bend Myth, Memory, and the Making of a National Battlefield./
Author:	Weiss, Justin Scott.
Description:	144 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International52-06(E).
Subject:	History, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1555944
ISBN:	9781303894565

The Ghosts of Horseshoe Bend Myth, Memory, and the Making of a National Battlefield.
Weiss, Justin Scott.

The Ghosts of Horseshoe Bend Myth, Memory, and the Making of a National Battlefield. - 144 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--Arizona State University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This research explores the various and often conflicting interpretations of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, an event seemingly lost in the public mind of twenty-first century America. The conflict, which pitted United States forces under the command of Major General Andrew Jackson against a militant offshoot of the Creek Confederacy, known as the Redsticks, ranks as the single most staggering loss of life in annals of American Indian warfare. Today, exactly 200 years after the conflict, the legacy of Horseshoe Bend stands as an obscure and often unheard of event. Drawing upon over two centuries of unpublished archival data, newspapers, and political propaganda this research argues that the dominate narrative of Northern history, the shadowy details of the War of 1812, and the erasure of shameful events from the legacy of westward expansion have all contributed to transform what once was a battle of epic proportions, described by Jackson himself as an "extermination," into a seemingly forgotten affair. Ultimately, the Battle of Horseshoe Bend's elusiveness has allowed for the production of various historical myths and political messages, critiques and hyperboles, facts and theories. Hailed as a triumph during the War of 1812, and a high-water mark by the proponents of Manifest Destiny, Jackson's victory has also experienced its fair share of American derision and disregard. Whereas some have criticized the battle as a "cold blooded massacre," others have glorified it as a touchstone of American masculinity, and excused it as a natural event in the unfolding of human evolution. Despite the battle's controversial nature, on 3 August 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a strong supporter of the National Park Service, approved act HR 11766 establishing Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, the very first national park in the state of Alabama. Hailed and forgotten, silenced and celebrated, exploited and yet largely unknown. This research explores what happened after the smoke cleared at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. It is a story about the production of history, the power of the past, and the malleability of the American mind.

ISBN: 9781303894565Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017448
History, General.

The Ghosts of Horseshoe Bend Myth, Memory, and the Making of a National Battlefield.
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