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Defining moments : African American commemoration & political culture in the South, 1863-1913 /
The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With ###Defining Moments#, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With ###Defining Moments#, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative traditions in the South, where events such as Emancipation Day and Fourth of July ceremonies served as opportunities for African Americans to assert their own understandings of slavery, the Civil War, and Emancipation--efforts that were vital to the struggles to define, assert, and defend Afr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807876801 9780807876800 9780807829578 0807829579 |