| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David W. Blight. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. 512. $29.95.

Few images embody the romance of sectional reconciliation better than the hand clasps of erstwhile enemies at the Gettysburg reunions of the post-Civil War decades, particularly the celebrated fiftieth anniversary reunion of 1913 featured in the final episode of the Ken Burns's documentary, The Civil War (1990). For David W. Blight, this seemingly reassuring picture of comity serves instead as a reminder of the terrible cost of sectional reconciliation, a price paid by African Americans whose absence is a tragic symbol of their collective erasure from the hearts and minds of millions of whites in the half-century following Appomattox. Blight's book, which stands at the crossroads of Reconstruction historiography and the study of memory, traces the process by which this erasure occurred and, with quiet moral passion, restores the centrality of the black experience to the war's legacy. . . .

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