Abstract

Abstract:

This article uncovers a major shift in the memory of the British reaction to the American Civil War. It argues that between the mid-1910s and mid-1920s, Britons and Americans who wanted to advance a closer Anglo-American alliance during and immediately after the Great War tried to foster a new memory of the British response to the Civil War, one which downplayed the tensions between the countries that had developed during and because of the historical American conflict. The article traces the generation of this new memory and demonstrates its impact on both Anglo-American relations and on early historical writing on the British reaction to the Civil War.

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