Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) Smith Based upon extensive primary source

Based upon extensive primary source material and featuring original maps by cartographer Steven Stanley

and Edmund Wilson hailed them as great literature

George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876

Federal Breechloading Carbines and Rifles

All the other regiments of Hood’s Texas Brigade would suffer over a 50 percent casualty rate at the battle

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) Smith Based upon extensive primary sourceby David W. Blight Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Winner of the Merle Curti award Winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race