Beyond the battlefield: race, memory & the American Civil War

Introduction: the confluence of history and memory

Pt. I: Preludes

Several lives in one : Frederick Douglass's autobiographical art

They knew what time it was : African Americans and the coming of the Civil War

No desperate hero : manhood and freedom in a Union soldier's experience

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : a relationship in language, politics, and memory

Pt. II: Problems in civil war memory

"For something beyond the battlefield" : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for the memory of the Civil War

Quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? : reunion and race in the memory of the Civil War, 1875-1913

Shaw Memorial in the landscape of Civil War memory

Healing and history : battlefields and the problem of Civil War memory

Fifty years of freedom : the memory of emancipation at the Civil War semicentennial, 1911-1915

Homer with a camera, our Iliad without the aftermath : Ken Burns's dialogue with historians

Pt. III: Postludes

W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for American historical memory

In retrospect : Nathan Irvin Huggins, the art of history, and the irony of the American dream

Epilogue : the riddle of collective memory and the American Civil War