The ensuing decades witnessed the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray. In 1865, confronted with a ravaged landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and painful process of reconciliation. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America’s national reunion. In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
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