![]() ![]() ![]() The ensuing decades witnessed the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray. In 1865, confronted with a ravaged landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and painful process of reconciliation. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America’s national reunion. ![]() In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize ![]()
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