Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory / by David W. Blight.

  • Blight, David W
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2003, ©2001
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003, ©2001.

Physical description

512 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-479) and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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