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

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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

George Washington

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

All metal cannon

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