Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory - [AUDIOBOOK]

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory - [AUDIOBOOK]
m4b | 558.6 MB | Author: David W. Blight | Year: 2002

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Winner of the Merle Curti award
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize

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.In 1865, confronted with a ravaged landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and painful process of reconciliation. The ensuing decades witnessed the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray. Nearly lost in national culture were the moral crusades over slavery that ignited the war, the presence and parti[beeep]tion of African Americans throughout the war, and the promise of eman[beeep]tion that emerged from the war. 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 eman[beeep]tionist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.

Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale of the politics of memory, of how a nation healed from civil war without justice. By the early twentieth century, the problems of race and reunion were locked in mutual dependence, a painful legacy that continues to haunt us today.

Category:History, Awards, Social Sciences, African Americans, United States History, Sociology, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, 19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, African American History, 19th Century United States History - Civil War, Social Structure & Social Change, Ethnic & Race Relations, United States History - General & Miscellaneous, 19th Century American History - Reconstruction, African Americans - Military History, Civil War and Reconstruction - African American History, Slavery - Eman[beeep]tion, Abolition & African American Civil War Parti[beeep]tion, Social Change, Union - Armed Forces - Civil War History, United States - Ethnic & Race Relations, United States Civil War - Resolution & Aftermath, United States Civil War - Social Aspects, United States History - Social Aspects, 2002 Bancroft Prize Winners, 2002 Lincoln Prize

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