Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) tea service The Civil War brought many

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America

5" and is similar to the piece that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in 1865

and conversing with hundreds of Northern and Southern soldiers from corps commanders all the way down to privates

Black Confederates

created Gettysburg National Military Park

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) tea service The Civil War brought manyby 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