LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william a blair

2 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william a blair

  • The Record of Murders and Outrages
    William A. Blair
    After the Civil War’s end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Washington, D.C., sought to downplay the growing evidence of atrocities, in September 1866, Freedmen’s Bureau commissioner O. O. Howard requested that assistant commissioners in the readmitted states compile reports of “murders and outr...
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    28,05 €

  • Cities of the Dead
    William A. Blair / William ABlair
    Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained ...
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    51,16 €