Making and remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War edited by William Blair and William Pencak

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blair, William Alan.

Pencak, William, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

Physical Description:

xix, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Pennsylvania's Civil War

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2001.

Contents:

Keystone Confederates : Pennsylvanians who fought for Dixie / Christian B. Keller

Avenue of dreams : patriotism and the spectator at Philadelphia's Great Central Sanitary Fair / Elizabeth Milroy

"We were enlisted for the war" : ladies' aid societies and the politics of women's work during the Civil War / Rachel Filene Seidman

"The world will little note nor long remember" : gender analysis of civilian responses to the Battle of Gettysburg / Christina Ericson

The Avery Monument : the elevation of race in public sculpture and the Republican Party / Henry Pisciotta

The Civil War letters of Quartermaster Sergeant John C. Brock, 43rd regiment, United States Colored Troops / edited by Eric Ledell Smith

Sites of memory, sites of glory : African-American Grand Army of the Republic posts in Pennsylvania / Barbara A. Gannon

"A disgrace that can never be washed out" : Gettysburg and the lingering stigma of 1863 / Jim Weeks

"Magnificence and terrible truthfulness" : Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg / Mark Thistlethwaite

The brothers' war : Gettysburg the movie and American memory / William Blair.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0271020792 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

43884886