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The Crucible of Disease: Trauma, Memory, and National Reconciliation during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

Blum studies of the ways that northern and southern whites responded to one another and remembered the Civil War during the 1878 yellow fever outbreak that enriches understandings of their postwar reconciliation. Although understudied as an episode of the post-Reconstruction era, the outbreak provid...

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Published in:The Journal of southern history 2003-11, Vol.69 (4), p.791-820, Article 791
Main Author: Blum, Edward J.
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Language:English
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Summary:Blum studies of the ways that northern and southern whites responded to one another and remembered the Civil War during the 1878 yellow fever outbreak that enriches understandings of their postwar reconciliation. Although understudied as an episode of the post-Reconstruction era, the outbreak provides an ideal occasion for scholars to probe issues of trauma and memory in the forging of postbellum white American nationalism. The essay suggests that the traumatic epidemic offered an event in which whites from both regions could experience, articulate, and perform reconciliation.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.2307/30040097