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American oracle : the Civil War in the civil rights era
- Title
- American oracle : the Civil War in the civil rights era / David W. Blight.
- Author
- Blight, David W.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Supplementary Content
- Book review (H-Net)
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 17-965 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- 314 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. --from publisher description.
- Subjects
- United States
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence
- Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Historiography
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- 1861-1865
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
- Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Historiography
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Five score years ago": civil war and civil rights -- "Gods and devils aplenty": Robert Penn Warren -- A formula for enjoying the war: Bruce Catton -- "Lincoln and Lee and all that": Edmund Wilson -- "This country is my subject": James Baldwin -- "The wisdom of tragedy": Ralph Ellison had a dream.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-965
- ISBN
- 9780674048553
- 0674048555
- 9780674725973
- 0674725972
- LCCN
- 2011006653
- OCLC
- 702941904
- Author
- Blight, David W.
- Title
- American oracle : the Civil War in the civil rights era / David W. Blight.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Note
- Author's autographed copy.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1861-1865
- Other Form:
- Electronic resource 9780674062702
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-965IKA 11-8905