Race and reunion :
Blight, David W.
Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory. David W. Blight. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. - 512 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
0674008197
00042918
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Social aspects.
War and society--History.--United States
Memory--Social aspects--History.--United States
Reconciliation--Social aspects--History.--United States
United States--History--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Race relations.
E 468.9 / .B618 2001
Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory. David W. Blight. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. - 512 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
0674008197
00042918
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Social aspects.
War and society--History.--United States
Memory--Social aspects--History.--United States
Reconciliation--Social aspects--History.--United States
United States--History--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Race relations.
E 468.9 / .B618 2001
