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Remembering Reconstruction - Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era (Hardcover)
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Remembering Reconstruction - Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era (Hardcover)
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Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound,
ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war's meaning has
shifted over time and the implications of those changes for
concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction
era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from
scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void,
assembling a prestigious lineup of Reconstruction historians to
examine the competing social and historical memories of this
pivotal and violent period in American history. Many consider the
period from 1863 (beginning with slave emancipation) to 1877 (when
the last federal troops were withdrawn from South Carolina and
Louisiana) an ""unfinished revolution"" for civil rights,
racial-identity formation, and social reform. Despite the
cataclysmic aftermath of the war, the memory of Reconstruction in
American consciousness and its impact on the country's fraught
history of identity, race, and reparation has been largely
neglected. The essays in Remembering Reconstruction advance and
broaden our perceptions of the complex revisions in the nation's
collective memory. Notably, the authors uncover the impetus behind
the creation of black counter-memories of Reconstruction and the
narrative of the ""tragic era"" that dominated white memory of the
period. Furthermore, by questioning how Americans have remembered
Reconstruction and how those memories have shaped the nation's
social and political history throughout the twentieth century, this
volume places memory at the heart of historical inquiry.
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