American oracle
Subtitle: the Civil War in the civil rights era
By: David W. Blight
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780674048553
Subjects: Historiography; Influence; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.