The New York Times disunion : a history of the Civil War / edited by Ted Widmer, with Clay Risen and George Kalogerakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Widmer, Edward L., editor.

Risen, Clay, editor.

Kalogerakis, George, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

From 2011 to 2015, the New York Times Op-Ed section hosted the Disunion blog, an online series launched to commemorate the long string of anniversaries over the five-year course of America's most destructive and divisive conflict. Celebrated upon publication for their startling originality and uncanny ability to convey immediacy and inspire fresh thought, the Disunion pieces were an integral part of the Civil War's sesquicentennial celebrations and indeed came to define them. Now, for the first time, the best essays selected from the entirety of the blog are collected in book form, and are pre

Contents:

Cover; Disunion; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Secession; Introduction; How Lincoln Undid the Union; Cup of Wrath and Fire; The Strange Victory of the Palmetto State; Learning from Buchanan; Confederates at the Gate; How a Map Divided Virginia; Texas Catches Fire; The Death Knell of Slavery; 2. Slavery and Emancipation; Introduction; Visualizing Slavery; The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Civil War; What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves; William Webb's World; A Capital under Slavery's Shadow; Black or White?; Was Freedom Enough?; Our Servants Do Pretty Much as They Please

The Grove of GladnessWhen Freedom Came to Charleston; 3. Women and the Home Front; Introduction; Women at War; Laugh During Wartime; The Civil War's Rip Van Winkle; General Butler and the Women; Scrapbooking the Civil War; The Civil War and the Fourth Estate; Making War on the Draft; Going to the Fair; Albert Cashier's Secret; Blacks, Baseball, and the Civil War; 4. The Battlefield; Introduction; Blue, Gray, and Everything in Between; The War Comes Home for Lee; The Boys of War; The Purchase by Blood; The Fighting Second; Winning the Field but Not the War; Striking the Blow at Fort Wagner

Life on the BattlefieldLeft Behind at Chickamauga; Humanity and Hope in a Southern Prison; How Coffee Fueled the Civil War; Was the Burning of Columbia a War Crime?; 5. The West and Native Americans; Introduction; The Bear Wars; Sam Houston, We Have a Problem; The Choctaw Confederates; How the West Was Won; The Lone Star State Turns South; The Rise of the West; Jennison's Jayhawkers; The Cherokee Free Their Slaves; Becoming Mark Twain; 6. Law and Rights; Introduction; States' Rights, but to What?; Freedom and Restraint; The Lieber Code; Rape and Justice in the Civil War

Lincoln Answers His CriticsThe Father of the Fourteenth Amendment; The Great Writ, North and South; The Nashville Experiment; Lincoln, God, and the Constitution; How the Civil War Changed the Constitution; 7. The Confederacy; Introduction; A Bad Document's Good Idea; Hastily Composed; The President and His General; The Birth of "Dixie"; The Drought That Changed the War; The Free Men of Color Go to War; Passover in the Confederacy; Papers, Please!; Lee Surrendered, but His Lieutenants Kept Fighting; Confederates in the Jungle; 8. The Civil War and the World; Introduction

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-062185-0

0-19-062184-2