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This distracted and anarchical people : new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North / edited by Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- North's Civil War (FUP)
- North's Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4569-1
- 0-8232-5266-3
- 0-8232-5028-8
- OCLC:
- 859687265
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