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Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory
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ISBN: 0674008197 0674003322 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, MA London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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The Columbian Orator
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ISBN: 0814739210 9780814739211 9780814713228 081471322X 081471322X 0814713238 9780814713235 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it frequently, referring to it as a "gem" and his "rich treasure." The Columbian Orator presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and slavery, including pieces by Washington, Franklin, Milton, Socrates, and Cicero, as well as heroic poetry and dramatic dialogues. Augmenting these is an essay on effective public speaking which influenced Abraham Lincoln as a young politician. As America experiences a resurgence of interest in the art of debating and oratory, The Columbian Orator--whether as historical artifact or contemporary guidebook--is one of those rare books to be valued for what it meant in its own time, and for how its ideas have endured. Above all, this book is a remarkable compilation of Enlightenment era thought and language that has stood the test of time.


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American oracle : the Civil War in the civil rights era
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ISBN: 0674062701 9780674062702 0674048555 9780674048553 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, "One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War Commission published a guide proclaiming that "the Centennial is no time for finding fault or placing blame or fighting the issues all over again."David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Robert Penn Warren, the southern-reared poet-novelist who recanted his support of segregation; Bruce Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy officer who became a popular Civil War historian; Edmund Wilson, the century's preeminent literary critic; and James Baldwin, the searing African-American essayist and activist-each exposed America's triumphalist memory of the war. And each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning with the tragic consequences it spawned.Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America's sense of itself but also the dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the country's political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose.

Beyond the battlefield : race, memory, and the American civil war.
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ISBN: 1558493611 Year: 2002 Publisher: Amherst University of Massachusetts press

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Frederick Douglass' Civil War : keeping faith in jubilee
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ISBN: 0807114634 Year: 1989 Publisher: Baton Rouge London Louisiana State University Press

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ISBN: 9780674022096 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Frederick Douglass' civil war : keeping faith in jubilee
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ISBN: 0807117242 Year: 1989 Publisher: Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press,

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ISBN: 9780674022096 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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American Oracle : The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
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ISBN: 9780674062702 9780674048553 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Delia's Tears
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ISBN: 0300115482 0300163282 Year: 2010 Publisher: Yale University Press

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