- Reconciliation, Race relations, Social aspects, Influence
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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- David W. Blight
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 528
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, Müller GmbH
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780674008199
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“"The Civil War is our felt history-history lived in the national imagination," wrote Robert Penn Warren in his Legacy of the Civil War (1961).”
David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
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