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This distracted and anarchical people : new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North /

The essays in this book range widely throughout the history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to re-examine old theories and discover new aspects of America's greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today as they were a century and a half ago.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Slap, Andrew L., Smith, Michael Thomas, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Colección:North's Civil War
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North / Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith
  • "A press that speaks its opinions frankly and openly and fearlessly": the contentious relationship between the Democratic press and the party in the antebellum North / Matthew Isham
  • Abraham Lincoln, manhood, and nineteenth-century American political culture / Michael Thomas Smith
  • Damnable treason or party organs? democratic secret societies in Pennsylvania / Robert M. Sandow
  • Copperheads in Connecticut: a peace movement that imperiled the union / Matthew Warshauer
  • "All manner of schemes and rascalities": the politics of promotion in the Union Army / Timothy J. Orr
  • "For my part I dont care who is elected president": the Union Army and the elections of 1864 / Jonathan W. White
  • New perspectives in Civil War ethnic history and their implications for twenty-first-century scholarship / Christian B. Keller
  • The black flag and Confederate soldiers: total war from the bottom up? / Michael J. Bennett
  • Liberia and the U.S. Civil War / Karen Fisher Younger
  • "No regular marriage": African American veterans and marriage practices after emancipation / Andrew L. Slap
  • "She is a member of the 23rd": Lucy Nichols and the community of the Civil War regiment / Barbara A. Gannon.