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Haunted by Memory: Ghost Stories of the American Civil War

Join historian Amy Laurel Fluker for a fascinating conversation about Haunted by Memory: Ghost Stories of the American Civil War , her new book co-edited with historian John R. Neff and published by the University of Tennessee Press in May 2026. Drawing on hundreds of ghost stories published in newspapers, periodicals, and books between 1861 and 1932, Haunted by Memory explores what these tales reveal about how Americans experienced and remembered the Civil War. From apparitions on battlefields to hauntings in hospitals and prisons, these stories offered more than thrills: they helped a…