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Race and Reunion The Civil War in American Memory

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ISBN-10: 0674008197

ISBN-13: 9780674008199

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: David W. Blight

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In 1865 the North and South of America began a slow process of reconciliation. This title examines the construction of a culture of reunion during the ensuing decades and analyses how this unity was created through increasing racial segregation.
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Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.94" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 1.496

David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

Prologue
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 Progress of the Race
Fifty Years of Freedom and Reunion
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index