Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Explores how Americans remembered the Civil War and how those memories influenced national identity and race relations.
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Race and Reunion examines the ways Americans confronted the legacy of the Civil War during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The book explores how competing memories of the conflict shaped national identity and public commemoration.
David W. Blight analyzes the tension between reunion and the unresolved issues of race and emancipation.
The study draws on a wide range of sources to trace the development of Civil War memory in American culture.
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