LEADER 03779nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910457800103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06270-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674062702 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056669 035 $a(OCoLC)758390031 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10504835 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000533935 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11339475 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000533935 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10492982 035 $a(PQKB)10555116 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300987 035 $a(DE-B1597)178273 035 $a(OCoLC)979880385 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674062702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10504835 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056669 100 $a20110217d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican oracle$b[electronic resource] $ethe Civil War in the civil rights era /$fDavid W. Blight 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04855-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue. "Five Score Years Ago" -- $tChapter one. "Gods and Devils Aplenty" -- $tChapter two. A Formula for Enjoying the War -- $tChapter three. "Lincoln and Lee and All That" -- $tChapter four. "This Country Is My Subject" -- $tEpilogue. "The Wisdom of Tragedy" -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aStanding on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, "One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War Commission published a guide proclaiming that "the Centennial is no time for finding fault or placing blame or fighting the issues all over again."David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Robert Penn Warren, the southern-reared poet-novelist who recanted his support of segregation; Bruce Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy officer who became a popular Civil War historian; Edmund Wilson, the century's preeminent literary critic; and James Baldwin, the searing African-American essayist and activist-each exposed America's triumphalist memory of the war. And each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning with the tragic consequences it spawned.Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America's sense of itself but also the dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the country's political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xInfluence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. 676 $a973.70072 700 $aBlight$b David W$0945511 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457800103321 996 $aAmerican oracle$92441025 997 $aUNINA