Beyond the Battlefield Race, Memory, and the American Civil War

Name: Beyond the Battlefield Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9781558493612

ISBN-10: 1558493611

ISBN-13: 9781558493612

Edition: 2002

Authors: David W. Blight, David W. Blight

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 7/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

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.



Preface


Introduction: The Confluence of History and Memory



Several Lives in One: Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical Art



They Knew What Time It Was: African Americans and the Coming of the Civil War



No Desperate Hero: Manhood and Freedom in a Union Soldier's Experience



Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: A Relationship in Language, Politics, and Memory



"For Something beyond the Battlefield": Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War



A Quarrel Forgotten or a Revolution Remembered? Reunion and Race in the Memory of the Civil War, 1875-1913



The Shaw Memorial in the Landscape of Civil War Memory



Healing and History: Battlefields and the Problem of Civil War Memory



Fifty Years of Freedom: The Memory of Emancipation at the Civil War Semicentennial, 1911-1915



Homer with a Camera, Our Iliad without the Aftermath: Ken Burns's Dialogue with Historians



W. E. B. DuBois and the Struggle for American Historical Memory



In Retrospect: Nathan Irvin Huggins, the Art of History, and the Irony of the American Dream


Epilogue: The Riddle of Collective Memory and the American Civil War


Index