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

Bankrupt and rudderless

history is preserved in this timeless collectible edition

Winner: Albert Castel Book Award

Richard Ewell approached within striking distance

ten postwar presidents appointed former Confederates to serve the reunited nation as Supreme Court justices

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