In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass' life and thought, offering new insights into the meaning of the war in American history and in the Afro-American experience. Frederick Douglass' Civil War follows Douglass' intellectual and personal growth from the political crises of the 1850s through secession, war, black enlistment, emancipation, and Reconstruction. This book provides an engrossing story of Douglass' development of a social identity in relation to transforming events, and demonstrates that he saw the Civil War as the Second American Revolution, and himself as one of the founders of a new nation. Through Douglass' life, his voice, and his interpretations we see the Civil War era and its memory in a new light.

Essays examine the causes of the Civil War, discussing pivotal events, people, and institutions

Essays examine the causes of the Civil War, discussing pivotal events, people, and institutions

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Product Description: First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the ways that contending memories of the Civil War clashed or intermingled in public memory from 1863 to 1915, focusing on race as the main problem in how Americans decided to remember and forget the Civil War. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: During the past decade and a half, scholars have increasingly addressed the relationship of history and memory. Among American historians, David W. Blight has been a pioneer in the field of memory studies, especially on the problems of slavery, race, and the Civil War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Chinese-Traditional thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougla