Remembering Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering Reconstruction write by Carole Emberton. This book was released on 2017-04-12. Remembering Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void, assembling a prestigious lineup of Reconstruction historians to examine the competing social and historical memories of this pivotal and violent period in American history. Many consider the period from 1863 (beginning with slave emancipation) to 1877 (when the last federal troops were withdrawn from South Carolina and Louisiana) an “unfinished revolution” for civil rights, racial-identity formation, and social reform. Despite the cataclysmic aftermath of the war, the memory of Reconstruction in American consciousness and its impact on the country’s fraught history of identity, race, and reparation has been largely neglected. The essays in Remembering Reconstruction advance and broaden our perceptions of the complex revisions in the nation's collective memory. Notably, the authors uncover the impetus behind the creation of black counter-memories of Reconstruction and the narrative of the “tragic era” that dominated white memory of the period. Furthermore, by questioning how Americans have remembered Reconstruction and how those memories have shaped the nation's social and political history throughout the twentieth century, this volume places memory at the heart of historical inquiry.
Race and Reunion
Race and Reunion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and Reunion write by David W. BLIGHT. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Race and Reunion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 relations and America's national reunion.
Memory in a Mediated World
Memory in a Mediated World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory in a Mediated World write by Andrea Hajek. This book was released on 2016-02-10. Memory in a Mediated World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups to connect the past, the present and the future.
Remembering the Civil War
Remembering the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering the Civil War write by Caroline E. Janney. This book was released on 2013. Remembering the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
The Wars of Reconstruction
The Wars of Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wars of Reconstruction write by Douglas R. Egerton. This book was released on 2014-01-21. The Wars of Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, took a seat on the state's Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic abolitionists thought such milestones would occur in their lifetimes. The brief years of Reconstruction marked the United States' most progressive moment prior to the civil rights movement. Previous histories of Reconstruction have focused on Washington politics. But in this sweeping, prodigiously researched narrative, Douglas Egerton brings a much bigger, even more dramatic story into view, exploring state and local politics and tracing the struggles of some fifteen hundred African-American officeholders, in both the North and South, who fought entrenched white resistance. Tragically, their movement was met by ruthless violence-not just riotous mobs, but also targeted assassination. With stark evidence, Egerton shows that Reconstruction, often cast as a “failure” or a doomed experiment, was rolled back by murderous force. The Wars of Reconstruction is a major and provocative contribution to American history.
