Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Revised) "Into the uncut grass

"Into the uncut grass

the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective

without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills)

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Revised) "Into the uncut grassWinner 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 relations and America's