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American Discord : The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era /

"American Discord" is a wide-ranging collection of essays by established and emerging scholars that examine many of the most critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, military and war; and gender, race, and religion. The collection be...

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Otros Autores: Mammina, Laura (Editor ), Gordon, Lesley J. (Lesley Jill) (Editor ), Bever, Megan L. (Megan Leigh), 1984- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Editors' Introduction: The Mundane and the Sublime
  • PART I: ENEMIES MUST BE DEFINED: Party Politics and Political Culture
  • Northern Temperance Reformers, Slavery, and the Civil War
  • Debating Black Manhood: The Northern Press Reports on the 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner
  • Newspaper Advertisements and American Political Culture, 1864-1865
  • The White Horse or the Mule: Lincoln in Civil War Music
  • PART II RIPPLING EFFECTS: Political and Military Conflicts
  • Acts of War: The Southern Seizure of Federal Forts and Arsenals, 1860-1861
  • Contaminated Water and Dehydration during the Vicksburg Campaign
  • Fires at the Battles of Chancellorsville and the Wilderness
  • United States Colored Troops and the Battle of the Crater
  • Domesticity in Conflict: Union Soldiers, Southern Women, and Gender Roles during the American Civil War
  • An Elusive Freedom: Black Women, Labor, and Liberation during the Civil War
  • PART III A THERMIDOREAN REACTION: Reconstruction and Counterrevolution
  • Christian Paternalism and Racial Violence: White and Black Baptists in Texas during the Civil War Era
  • Deriding the Democracy: The Partisan Humor of David Ross Locke
  • Reconstruction and Historical Allusion
  • Sherman and Grant: Different Men and Different Memoirs
  • The Evolution of the Public Memory of the Hamburg Massacre
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index