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Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History with Primary Sources book cover

1st Edition

Civil War America A Social and Cultural History with Primary Sources

Edited By Maggi Morehouse, Zoe Trodd Copyright 2013
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge
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As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read newspapers, joined unions, attended plays, and graduated from high school and college. Civil War America reveals how Americans, both Northern and Southern, lived during the Civil War—the ways they worked, expressed... Read more

Acknowledgements

Foreword by John Stauffer

Introduction by Maggi M. Morehouse and Zoe Trodd

Part I: Dissent and Disobedience

  1. Draft Resistance and Rioting: Shannon Smith Bennett

  2. Southern Dissent: David Williams

  3. Women Soldiers: Rachel Redfern

    4. Part II: Labor and Land

  4. The Domestic Sphere: Phyllis Thompson

  5. Labor Organizations: Mark A. Lause

  6. Commerce and Industry: Daniel Rasmussen

  7. The Environment: Megan Kate Nelson

    8. Part III: Religion and Reform

  8. Religion in the South: Thomas Lawrence Long

  9. Religion in the North: James R. Rohrer

  10. Reform and Welfare Societies: Lauren Brandt

    11. Part IV: Health and Education

  11. Higher Education: A.J. Angulo and Kimberly Cook

  12. Military Schools: Bradford A. Wineman

  13. Military Medicines: Guy R. Hasegawa

  14. Civilian Healthcare: James M. Schmidt

    15. Part V: Ethnic American Lives

  15. Slave Emancipation: Sharon A. Roger Hepburn

  16. Black Troops: Maggi M. Morehouse

  17. Immigrants: Jennifer A. Stollman

  18. Native Americans: W. Craig Gaines

    19. Part VI: Literature and Visual Culture

  19. Newspapers: Brayton Harris

  20. Literature: Vanessa Steinroetter

  21. Photography: Mandy A. Reid

  22. Painting and Illustration: Jennifer Raab

    23. Part VII: Leisure and Performance

  23. Music: Jack Hamilton

  24. Theater: Laura Ansley and Renée M. Sentilles

  25. Baseball: Ryan Swanson

  26. Sacred and Secular Holidays: Suanna H. Davis

    27. Part VII: Death and Aftermath

  27. Death and Dying: Nicole Day

  28. Veterans: John Casey

  29. Competing Memories: James M. Gillispie

About the Editors

Biography

Maggi M. Morehouse is Associate Professor of Southern History and Director of the Burroughs Fund for Southern Studies at Coastal Carolina University.

Zoe Trodd is Professor and Chair of American Literature in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

"Civil War America　offers readers a remarkably insightful and comprehensive collection of essays on the social and cultural history of the home front and the battlefield. Students and professors alike will find the essays accessible and substantive, perfect for sparking classroom discussions of this vital era. Covering a range of diverse topics such as wartime music and theater, education, sports, draft resistance, and African American troops, Civil War America　opens myriad avenues for dialogue and understanding."

Jonathan D. Wells, author of A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth Century America (Routledge)

"A new collection of twenty-nine short essays edited by Maggi Morehouse and Zoe Trodd falls into new thinking about the war...Especially useful are chapters covering cultural metamorphoses. These help students think beyond military and political institutions and consider the roles played by newspapers, literature, photography, the fine arts, music, and sports in shaping perceptions of the war and the broader, slippery entity called “American” culture."

Robert E. Weir, Smith College/University of Massachusetts Amherst

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