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Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory / David W. Blight.

Title: Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory / David W. Blight.
Author: Blight, David W.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.

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Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM

Description

512 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-479) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. The dead and the living -- 2. Regeneration and reconstruction -- 3. Decoration days -- 4. Reconstruction and reconciliation -- 5. Soldiers' memory -- 6. Soldiers' faith -- 7. The literature of reunion and its discontents -- 8. The lost cause and causes not lost -- 9. Black memory and progress of the race -- 10. Fifty years of freedom and reunion.

ISBN

0674003322 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00042918^

OCLC

44313386

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Harvard Library