Race and reunion

the Civil War in American memory

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Race and reunion

the Civil War in American memory

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"No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion." "Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
512

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
March 1, 2002, Belknap Press
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Race and reunion: the Civil War in American memory
2001, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, Mass

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Dewey Decimal Class
973.7
Library of Congress
E468.9 .B58 2001, E468.9 .B58 2001eb, E468.9.B58 2001

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512 p. :
Number of pages
512

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OL6786928M
Internet Archive
racereunioncivil00blig
ISBN 10
0674003322
LCCN
00042918
OCLC/WorldCat
44313386
Library Thing
13649
Goodreads
3994078

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