Beyond the battlefield : race, memory & the American Civil War / David W. Blight.
| Author/creator | Blight, David W. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2002. |
| Description | xi, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Several lives in one : Frederick Douglass's autobiographical art -- They knew what time it was : African Americans and the coming of the Civil War -- No desperate hero : manhood and freedom in a Union soldier's experience -- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : a relationship in language, politics, and memory -- "For something beyond the battlefield" : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for the memory of the Civil War -- A quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? : reunion and race in the memory of the Civil War, 1875-1913 -- The Shaw Memorial in the landscape of Civil War memory -- Healing and history : battlefields and the problem of Civil War memory -- Fifty years of freedom : the memory of emancipation at the Civil War semicentennial, 1911-1915 -- Homer with a camera, our Iliad without the aftermath : Ken Burns's dialogue with historians -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for American historical memory -- In retrospect : Nathan Irvin Huggins, the art of history, and the irony of the American dream -- Epilogue : the riddle of collective memory and the American Civil War. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002000560 |
| ISBN | 1558493441 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1558493611 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | E468.9 .B57 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |