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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →