How does the Civil War continue to live on in American lives and culture?

How does the Civil War continue to live on in American lives and culture? Order Description writing about American myth-making in connection with the American Civil War and Reconstruction - while analysing Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1963) and the sequels. the discussion to answer the following questions: What is it about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that still fascinates readers today? Why are these historical events still relevant? How does the war’s legacies continue to shape American lives? How does the Civil War continue to live on in American culture? Did the Reconstruction period ever end? Please use the following sources: Campbell, Neil, and Alasdair Kean. An Introduction to American Culture. 3rd ed., London: Routledge, 2012. Print. Gray, Richard, and Owen Robinson, editors. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Print. Hartman, Chester, editor. America’s Growing Inequality. The Impact of Poverty and Race. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014. Print. Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic. Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. 1998. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. Print. McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie. Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Print. - especially Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic. Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (1998) - is vital I imagine the discussion could reflect upon: Nation leaders apologizing to groups/minorities who were wronged in the past - apologizing for slavery and Jim crow laws The impact of the confederate flag then and now - what does it mean today? How is it used? The issues that follow when the confederate flag is confused with the confederate battle flag. The removal/destruction of Civil War / Confederate monuments What role does the Civil War reenactments play in maintaining the myth and romanticizing the past?