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Beyond the battlefield : race, memory & the American Civil War
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- Creator
- David W. Blight
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xi, 301 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781558493445, 1558493441, 9781558493612, 1558493611
- OCLC
- ocm48858129
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: the confluence of history and memory -- Pt. I: Preludes -- Several lives in one : Frederick Douglass's autobiographical art -- They knew what time it was : African Americans and the coming of the Civil War -- No desperate hero : manhood and freedom in a Union soldier's experience -- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : a relationship in language, politics, and memory -- Pt. II: Problems in civil war memory -- "For something beyond the battlefield" : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for the memory of the Civil War -- Quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? : reunion and race in the memory of the Civil War, 1875-1913 -- Shaw Memorial in the landscape of Civil War memory -- Healing and history : battlefields and the problem of Civil War memory -- Fifty years of freedom : the memory of emancipation at the Civil War semicentennial, 1911-1915 -- Homer with a camera, our Iliad without the aftermath : Ken Burns's dialogue with historians -- Pt. III: Postludes -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for American historical memory -- In retrospect : Nathan Irvin Huggins, the art of history, and the irony of the American dream -- Epilogue : the riddle of collective memory and the American Civil War