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Volume 14 - April 2015

Contents

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Public Commemoration: The Birth of a Nation

  • OLD PURPOSE, “NEW BODY”:THE BIRTH OF A NATION AND THE REVIVAL OF THE KU KLUX KLAN1

  • Katherine Lennard
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 October 2015, pp. 616-620

  • When a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan first arrived in Butte, Montana, in the summer of 1921, he placed an ad in the Butte Miner depicting a white-robed man astride a bucking horse. Borrowed from the publicity materials for D W. Griffith's groundbreaking film, The Birth of a Nation (1915), this image of a uniformed figure was a fixture of Klan propaganda. The advertisement faced two directions: it connected the newly formed Klan with its Reconstruction Era predecessor, while also demonstrating that the Klan imagined itself through the revisionist lens of Griffith's film and its textual inspiration, Thomas Dixon Jr.'s play and novel The Clansman (1905). The image of a white-robed Klansmen in the Butte Miner was thus a symbol of what Klan leaders and the popular media alike called the Klan's “revival,” the process through which the historical organization was brought to life in a new form.

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  • JGA volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    19 December 2014, pp. f1-f5
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  • JGA volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    19 December 2014, pp. b1-b5
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  • JGA volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    22 July 2015, pp. f1-f5
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    22 July 2015, pp. b1-b5
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  • JGA volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    02 October 2015, pp. f1-f5
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    02 October 2015, pp. b1-b6
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