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An uncommon time : the Civil War and the northern home front
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- Creator
- edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2002
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- Physical Details
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- xx, 362 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780823221950, 0823221954, 9780823221967, 0823221962
- OCLC
- ocm49320373
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller -- 1. A Terrible Fascination: The Portrayal of Combat in the Civil War Media / Earl J. Hess -- 2. A Thrilling Northern War: Gender, Race, and Sensational Popular War Literature / Alice Fahs -- 3. From Necessary Evil to National Blessing: The Northern Protestant Clergy Interpret the Civil War / Peter J. Parish -- 4. Let the Nation Be Your Bank: The Civil War Bond Drives and the Construction of National Patriotism / Melinda Lawson -- 5. Freedom, Union, and Power: The Ideology of the Republican Party during the Civil War / Michael S. Green -- 6. Beyond Politics: Patriotism and Partisanship on the Northern Home Front / Adam I. P. Smith -- 7. A Monstrous Doctrine? Northern Women on Dependency during the Civil War / Rachel Filene Seidman -- 8. Joseph Henry's Smithsonian during the Civil War / Michael F. Conlin -- 9. Civil War Church Trials: Repressing Dissent on the Northern Home Front / Bryon C. Andreasen -- 10. "A White Man's State in New England": Race, Party, and Suffrage in Civil War Connecticut / Lex Renda -- 11. The Confiscation Acts: The North Strikes Back / John Syrett -- 12. Modernization and the Federal System: The Example of Kentucky and Its War Claims against the United States Government / Kyle S. Sinisi -- Afterword / J. Matthew Gallman