Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) tea

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) teaby David W. Blight 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

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A corporal drinks from a tin drum type canteen offered to him by a comrade in arms

It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually when it became a military necessity

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Mezurek provides more than a typical regimental study

Coddington also focuses on the momentous naval events that ushered in an era of ironclad ships and other technical innovations

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The book also includes the filmmakers' notes on the story