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 -- "For something beyond the battlefield" : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for the memory of the Civil War -- A quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? : reunion and race in the memory of the Civil War, 1875-1913 -- The 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 -- 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.