David Blight Reviews Bruce Levine’s Confederate Emancipation No surprise that David Blight approves of Levine’s ground-breaking study that seriously challenges the popular belief that black Southerners willingly fought for the Confederacy in large numbers. Blight knows all too well that this belief is rooted in a postwar re-interpretation that sought to distance the memory of [...]
David Blight
Nice to see that Dimitri Rotov has had an opportunity to update Civil War Book News. I thought I might point out a few new titles in the area of Civil War memory that are worth examining. This particular field is in full swing since the 2001 publication of David Blight’s Race and Reunion. Blight’s [...]
I just finished a fascinating discussion with my Civil War class on an article written by David Blight and published in North and South Magazine. The article is an overview of his book Race and Reunion published a few years ago, which examines the disappearance of African Americans from the national narrative of the Civil [...]