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Race and reunion the Civil War in American memory
- Author / Creator
Details
- Creator
- by David W. Blight
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003, c2001
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 512 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674008197
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-479) and index.
- The dead and the living -- Regeneration and reconstruction -- Decoration days -- Reconstruction and reconciliation -- Soldiers' memory -- Soldiers' faith -- The literature of reunion and its discontents -- The lost cause and causes not lost -- Black memory and the progress of race -- Fifty years of freedom and reunion
Subjects
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Social aspects.
- War and society -- United States -- History.
- Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
- Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
- United States -- Race relations.