Race and Reunion

Description:

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. *Race and Reunion* is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.

subjects: Reconciliation,  Race relations,  Social aspects,  Influence,  Social aspects of Memory,  Social aspects of Reconstruction,  Afro-Americans,  War and society,  Social aspects of Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877),  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  Reconstruction,  Memory,  Social aspects of Reconciliation,  Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877),  African Americans,  History,  Afro-américain,  Guerre et société,  Reconstruction d'après-guerre,  HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877),  Guerre de Sécession (1861-1865),  Aspect social,  Mémoire collective,  Amerikaanse burgeroorlog,  Collectief geheugen,  Réconciliation,  Noirs américains,  Histoire,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Relations interraciales,  Historiographie,  Relations raciales,  Rassenverhoudingen,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865,  Slaves, emancipation, united states,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, african americans,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, influence,  United states, race relations,  United states, social conditions,  New York Times reviewed

Places: United States

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865