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Race and Reunion

David W. Blight

How did Americans choose to remember the Civil War in the fifty years after it, and what did the story of reunion leave out?

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Author
David W. Blight

Why read it

  • You will see how a nation can settle on a comforting story of reconciliation and leave things out
  • You will learn to ask whose memory wins in public monuments and anniversaries, and whose is pushed aside
  • You will notice how talk of national unity can quietly steer people away from race and slavery

Who it is for

  • A reader troubled by current fights over Civil War monuments
  • A teacher explaining why the Civil War's meaning is still contested
  • Someone interested in how societies remember painful events

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. ONE
  3. The Dead and the Living
  4. TWO
  5. Regeneration and Reconstruction
  6. THREE
  7. Decoration Days
  8. FOUR
  9. Reconstruction and Reconciliation
  10. FIVE
  11. Soldiers’ Memory
  12. SIX
  13. Soldiers’ Faith
  14. SEVEN
  15. The Literature of Reunion and Its Discontents
  16. EIGHT
  17. The Lost Cause and Causes Not Lost
  18. NINE
  19. Black Memory and Progress of the Race
  20. TEN
  21. Fifty Years of Freedom and Reunion
  22. Epilogue

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