There are two books that set me on a course to becoming a historian of Civil War memory. The first is David Blight’s groundbreaking book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2002). The other is Carol Reardon’s Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory (1997).
This year marks the 25th anniversary of its release.
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