American oracle
About this book
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.
Subjects
HistoriographyInfluenceHistoryWarren, robert penn, 1905-1989Wilson, edmund, 1895-1972Baldwin, james, 1924-1987United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, historiographyUnited states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, influence