Race and Reunion

The Civil War in American Memory

David W. Blight

  • 2001 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Slavery, Resistance, and/or Abolition
  • 2001 Lincoln Prize Sponsored by Gettysburg College
  • 2002 Merle Curti Award for the Best Book in Social, Intellectual, and/or Cultural History, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians
  • 2002 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians
  • Co-Winner of the 2002 James A. Rawley Prize, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians
  • 2001 Bancroft Prize Awarded by Columbia University

Prologue

1. The Dead and the Living

2. Regeneration and Reconstruction

3. Decoration Days

4. Reconstruction and Reconciliation

5. Soldiers' Memory

6. Soldiers' Faith

7. The Literature of Reunion and Its Discontents

8. The Lost Cause and Causes Not Lost

9. Black Memory and Progress of the Race

10. Fifty Years of Freedom and Reunion

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Race and Reunion
  • A photo of the author

David W. Blight is Professor of History at Yale University.