Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blight, David W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
1861-1865
1861-1877
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.
Buildings > Repair and reconstruction > Social aspects.
Reconstruction > Aspect social.
Guerre et société > États-Unis > Histoire.
Réconciliation > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Memory > Social aspects.
Race relations.
Social aspects.
War and society.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Collectief geheugen.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Afro-américain.
Guerre de Sécession (1861-1865)
Histoire.
Historiographie.
Mémoire collective.
Reconstruction d'après-guerre.
Relations interraciales.
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.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Influence.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Noirs américains.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States.
États-Unis.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The dead and the living
  • 2. Regeneration and reconstruction
  • 3. Decoration days
  • 4. Reconstruction and reconciliation
  • 5. Soldiers' memory
  • 6. Soldiers' faith
  • 7. The literature of reunion and its discontents
  • 8. The lost cause and causes not lost
  • 9. Black memory and progress of the race
  • 10. Fifty years of freedom and reunion.

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