"Forget, hell!" : the Civil War in southern memory / Charles Joyner -- Confederate identity and the southern myth since the Civil War / Bruce Collins -- Unfinished business : African Americans and the Civil War centennial / Robert Cook -- The Civil War in the movies / Melvyn Stokes -- A contested legacy: the Civil War and party politics in the North / Adam I.P. Smith and Peter J. Parish -- Abraham Lincoln and the character of liberal statesmanship / Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick -- Abraham Lincoln and American nationhood / Peter J. Parish -- "For a vast future also" : Lincoln and the millennium / James M mcpherson -- Civil-military relations and the legacy of the Civil War / Brian Holden Reid -- The enduring significance of the Civil War constitutional amendments / Patricia Lucie -- "The charter of its birthright" : the Civil War and American nationalism / Susan-Mary Grant -- From Civil War to world power : perceptions and realities, 1865-1914 / Richard N. Current.