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James A. Rawley Prize (OAH) ISBN. 978-0-674-00332-3. Dewey Decimal. 973.7. LC Class. E468.9 .B58 2001. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory is a 2001 book by the American historian David W. Blight. [1] The book was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery of 2001.
David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years.
Early work Monument dedicated by the UDC on August 8, 1908, Bentonville, Arkansas Battlefield memorial dedicated by the UDC on September 19, 1928 Across the Southern United States, associations were founded after the Civil War, chiefly by women, to organize burials of Confederate soldiers, establish and care for permanent cemeteries, organize commemorative ceremonies, and sponsor impressive ...
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004), online edition pp. 94–129; Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2000) excerpt and text search; Buck, Paul H. The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 (1937); examines the reconciliation between the regions by white veterans
“The war was over, and Decoration Day had been founded by African Americans in a ritual of remembrance and consecration,” said Dr. David Blight, Sterling Professor of History and of African ...
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy (or simply the Lost Cause) is an American pseudohistorical [1] [2] and historical negationist myth [3] [4] [5] that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery. [6] First enunciated in 1866, it has continued to influence racism, gender ...
Historian, Dr. David Blight, writes that in May 1865 newly freed African Americans reburied 257 Union soldiers who had died in a prison camp and were hastily buried, so that they might have a ...
And women in some Confederate states were decorating graves before the war’s end. David Blight, a Yale history professor, points to May 1, 1865, when as many as 10,000 people, many of them Black ...