Race and ReunionHarvard University Press, 30.06.2009 - 528 Seiten 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 relations and America's national reunion. |
Inhalt
Prologue | 1 |
1 The Dead and the Living | 6 |
2 Regeneration and Reconstruction | 31 |
3 Decoration Days | 64 |
4 Reconstruction and Reconciliation | 98 |
5 Soldiers Memory | 140 |
6 Soldiers Faith | 171 |
7 The Literature of Reunion and Its Discontents | 211 |
8 The Lost Cause and Causes Not Lost | 255 |
9 Black Memory and Progress of the Race | 300 |
10 Fifty Years of Freedom and Reunion | 338 |
Epilogue | 381 |
Notes | 399 |
Acknowledgments | 481 |
| 487 | |
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