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Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, "One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War Commission published a guide proclaiming that "the Centennial is no time for finding fault or placing blame or fighting the issues all over again."David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Robert Penn Warren, the southern-reared poet-novelist who recanted his support of segregation; Bruce Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy officer who became a popular Civil War historian; Edmund Wilson, the century's preeminent literary critic; and James Baldwin, the searing African-American essayist and activist-each exposed America's triumphalist memory of the war. And each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning with the tragic consequences it spawned.Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America's sense of itself but also the dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the country's political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose.

HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- Warren, Robert Penn, --- Catton, Bruce, --- Wilson, Edmund, --- Baldwin, James, --- Baldwin, James --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Catton, Bruce --- Red, --- Уоррен, Роберт Пенн, --- Вильсон, Эдмунд, --- Ṿilson, Edmund, --- וילסון, אדמונד, --- United States --- History --- Historiography. --- Influence.

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Memory --- Social aspects --- United States --- United States --- United States --- United States --- History --- African Americans. --- History --- Influence. --- History --- Monuments. --- Race relations.

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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Lincoln, Abraham

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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. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it frequently, referring to it as a "gem" and his "rich treasure." The Columbian Orator presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and slavery, including pieces by Washington, Franklin, Milton, Socrates, and Cicero, as well as heroic poetry and dramatic dialogues. Augmenting these is an essay on effective public speaking which influenced Abraham Lincoln as a young politician. As America experiences a resurgence of interest in the art of debating and oratory, The Columbian Orator--whether as historical artifact or contemporary guidebook--is one of those rare books to be valued for what it meant in its own time, and for how its ideas have endured. Above all, this book is a remarkable compilation of Enlightenment era thought and language that has stood the test of time.

Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Addresses --- Collected papers (Anthologies) --- Discourses --- Orations --- Papers, Collected (Anthologies) --- Festschriften --- Lectures and lecturing --- Enlightenment. --- Frederick Douglass. --- debate. --- early American life. --- eloquence. --- oratory. --- political theory. --- self improvement. --- speaking skills. --- speeches.

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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- African Americans --- Liberty --- Historiography. --- Civil rights --- History