Race and Reunion

The Civil War in American Memory

David W. Blight

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$33.00 • £26.95 • €29.50

ISBN 9780674008199

Publication Date: 03/01/2002

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528 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

31 halftones

Belknap Press

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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

Awards & Accolades

2002 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University

2002 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

2002 Merle Curti Award in Social History and in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians

2002 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians

Co-Winner, 2002 James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations, Organization of American Historians

2001 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

A Salon Top 12 Civil War Book Ever Written

A Huffington Post “Books That Will Help You Understand America” Selection, 2017

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