This magnificent work will be a historical landmark for decades to come.” This book will be read, and it will make a difference.”Ĭommented the Gilder Lehrman Center’s director, David Brion Davis, professor of history at Yale: “ Race and Reunion is a highly original examination of the terrible costs, in terms of racial exclusion and discrimination, that our nation paid for sectional reunion and reconciliation in the half-century following the Civil War. That is important, because few Americans have a clear understanding of the impact of slavery in our nation’s history. The masterful and engaging style of Race and Reunion makes it extraordinarily appealing to a broad audience. Lehrman: “Blight’s book is not only good history, it is superb writing. They also sponsor magnet history schools, teacher education programs, and the annual Lincoln Prize, among other initiatives. The prize is endowed by philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, pre-eminent collectors with a long record of encouraging, recognizing, and supporting the study of American history. The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, a part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. His posthumously published masterpiece traces the impact of slavery on American government from the Revolution to the end of the Civil War. By masterfully addressing the central issues of the turn of the twentieth century - race and national reunion - he provides the historical perspective we need to attack the fundamental problem of race relations and to face the memory of slavery in America today.” The Gilder Lehrman Center also honored with special recognition The Slaveholding Republic (Oxford University Press, 2001) by the late historian Don E. has said: “David Blight has hit the nail on the head with this book. Praising Race and Reunion as a “moving and astounding book,” Congressman Jesse L. Blight shows how the moral imperative for the Civil War - the destruction of slavery - was downplayed, and how myths of the “Lost Cause” and the “Old South,” still thriving today, grew in both literature and popular memory. The winning book, published by Harvard University Press, explores how the nation achieved sectional harmony by re-inventing wartime memory - ignoring the role of slavery and race and instead celebrating the common valor and shared glory of white Union and Confederate soldiers in the name of healing the sectional divide.
(New York) - David Blight’s celebrated new study, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, won the third annual $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for the year’s most outstanding book on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition. David Blight’s Race and Reunion Wins Annual $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for Best Book on Slavery
0 kommentar(er)
