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

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Mezurek provides more than a typical regimental study

The book also includes the filmmakers' notes on the story

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