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Series
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume collects twenty-two black & white images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the war. Focusing on images that range from a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, to a census graph published in the New York Times, to a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the...
Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Buying and Selling the Civil War is a collection of original essays about the marketing and selling of Civil War memory during the postwar economic boom known as the "Gilded Age." The editors, Marten and Janney, both renowned scholars for their studies of the Civil War, provide a new framework for examining the intersections of material culture, consumerism, and contested memory. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries...
Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 358 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation-and how those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite-including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows...
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