Race and Reunion
The Civil War in American Memory
by David W. Blight
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in American Civil War, Civil War, and History.
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. In 1865, confronted wit...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in American Civil War, Civil War, and History.
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“The thanks rightly goes to the great @davidwblight, whose book Race and Reunion I highly recommend to anyone who cares about the fate of our democracy. The past is not really past? | The thanks rightly goes to the great @davidwblight, whose book Race and Reunion I highly recommend to anyone who cares about the fate of our democracy. The past is not really past…”
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