Nowadays there are rarely any books that interest me. Truthfully, some if not most books are just pieces of information the author uses to persuade you into understanding their point of view. Updated version then come in order to further … Continue reading
In David W. Blight’s “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” , it reminds Americans to forever remember how the Civil War had begun and the lasting effects that derives from the war. We had always thought that … Continue reading
Eric’s Foner’s review of Race and Reunion by David Blight points out a wide range of unique perspectives concerning the legacy of the Civil war from the book. One example I found particularly interesting was the absence of African Americans … Continue reading
Based on the review by Eric Foner (here), Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight seems to convey the impression that its a book which has documented the making of the Civil War history. … Continue reading
a) David Blight’s book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory did sound pretty interesting to me. It shows how what most people learn about the Civil War as students are just what “scholarly cottage industry” choose to … Continue reading
I most definitely enjoyed this article by Eric Foner. The article elaborated on how “Race & Reunion” by David Blight is packed with facts and important information thats has been “forgotten”. If I would like to learn more about the … Continue reading
A. This is a very interesting book, because it has a lot of real memory for the Civil War period, and it gives us a lot of good examples like Blacks were not the only ones “forgotten” in this story. … Continue reading
Eric Foner’s book review focused on why the civil war began and how it would be remembered. The book sparks interest due to the conflicts of how history should be remembered and what really happened. Reconciliationist side speaks of remenbering the … Continue reading
David Blight’s “Race and Reunion” sounds like an interesting read. “Race and Reunion” is a book that seems to share a different side of the Civil War that is often misunderstood. Blight expresses that the Confederacy “lost the war on … Continue reading
Race and Reunion certainly seems like an interesting book to read. David Blight writes about the details of the Civil War while showing the audience another insight. Blight specifically states that racism occurred while historians wrote about the Civil War … Continue reading
David Blight’s book does seem both interesting and intriguing to me. After reading this review, I seem to feel that I may not know as much as I think I know about what happened before, after, and during the Civil … Continue reading
a) The David Blight book sounds very interesting to me. The book gives you a few different point-of-views about the Civil War and race. It’s very interesting to know that some historians don’t believe the Civil War was fought because … Continue reading
Although it is a book review, Foner spends little word space actually discussing the David Blight book. Instead, Eric details his own short historiography of the Civil War, explaining the different schools of scholarly thought and how events after the … Continue reading
The David Blight book seems very interesting to me in that he gives a behind the scenes look at Reconstruction after the Civil War. Many historians, professors, and students can benefit from this book because they can deeply understand the … Continue reading
Just when we thought we could trust our history books, along comes David W. Blight and his book ” Race and Reunion ”. A book about the American Civil War and it’s effects even after the war was over, “Race … Continue reading
David W. Blight’s book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, discusses the different views towards the history of the Civil War. The book addresses two different controversial memories of the war, the emancipationist and the reconciliationist. It … Continue reading
I’m far from interested in this book simply because it invokes too much paradoxical references that cannot be proven because the evidence can be invented as shown in David Blights book. What if we were the ones being mislead and … Continue reading
Eric Foner’s review on David Blight’s book shows how history can be presented in a different light. Not only did I find the review intriguing, but shocking and remarkable. We’ve been taught to read history books as though all truths … Continue reading
I feel that Eric Foner’s book review shed a lot of light on the potential book by Blight. For one Foner hits upon the point that in order for a reconciliation between North and South to occur the dream of … Continue reading
” Race and Reunion ” does seem to be an interesting piece of work to me because it provides us, readers, information that we might or might not have known about the Civil War. I never would’ve guessed in a … Continue reading