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David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. --from publisher description.
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3 editions- Hardcover · English · 2011Belknap Press of Harvard University Press · 314 pages · 9780674048553
- Other · English · 2013Harvard University Press · 328 pages · 9780674725973
- Other · English · 2011Harvard University Press · 328 pages · 9780674062702
HistoriographyInfluenceHistoryWarren, robert penn, 1905-1989Wilson, edmund, 1895-1972Baldwin, james, 1924-1987