Beyond the Battlefield by David Blight

Beyond the war, the work of David Brett David Brett "Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War" is an interesting review of the thoroughly researched but misunderstood civil war era. Bright has focused on ways in which memory forms a sense of historical brightness and civil war has achieved the goal of abolishing slavery, it does not reach the ultimate possibility to open the way to equality.

David Brett: For Americans outside the South, for many northern people, over the course of time, the ideology of "Reason for Loss" ... This alliance's idea is for modern ones. A kind of fortress - it is very popular. In particular, popular fiction writers such as Thomas Nelson Pecs and Joel Chandler Harris, and many imitators have created a very popular form of American literature. Even in the 1870s they made this early, especially in the 1880s and 1890s. These stories, stories speak about the old world about the peaceful world of this plantation system, everyone knows where they are, and the black people are basically faithful holders and happy darkness . They are genuine characters, usually a very cute character.

Historian David W. Blight: Must admit South is a devastating society. The destruction of the southern economy in 1865 and 1866 was at least different from what our other Americans experienced in our hometown. After the war, the north newspaper and magazine writers who headed south finally observed the outdoor coffin laid in the cemetery. They were able to get lots of bones from the battlefield, after all they saw that the old man and the former slave gathered bones. The bones of the dead - no name, one place, they have never been sent home. This is what people see when they visited these battlefields in 1865 and 1866, and over that many years.

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David Brett: As in the 17th century British destroyed the monastery in the British Civil War, these monasteries have a British landscape. ... the war just after this ruined the city. Indeed, after the war, many of the major magazines and newspapers in the north have traveled in the south and sent journalists one after another writing articles. What the battlefield looks like, the old trenches are working, the landscape of the old farms that they are now. For the first time in the United States, a society with comprehensive war experience gave it ruins.