Race and reunion [electronic resource] : the Civil War in American memory /

Blight, David W.

Race and reunion the Civil War in American memory / [electronic resource] : by David W. Blight. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003, c2001. - 512 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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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.



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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.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) War and society Memory Reconciliation