American oracle [electronic resource] : the Civil War in the civil rights era / David W. Blight.
2011
E468.5 .B55 2011eb
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American oracle [electronic resource] : the Civil War in the civil rights era / David W. Blight.
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9780674062702 (electronic book)
9780674048553
9780674048553
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.
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English
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1 online resource (314 p.) : ill.
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E468.5 .B55 2011eb
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973.70072
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David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. --from publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Five score years ago": civil war and civil rights
"Gods and devils aplenty": Robert Penn Warren
A formula for enjoying the war: Bruce Catton
"Lincoln and Lee and all that": Edmund Wilson
"This country is my subject": James Baldwin
"The wisdom of tragedy": Ralph Ellison had a dream.
"Gods and devils aplenty": Robert Penn Warren
A formula for enjoying the war: Bruce Catton
"Lincoln and Lee and all that": Edmund Wilson
"This country is my subject": James Baldwin
"The wisdom of tragedy": Ralph Ellison had a dream.