The long Civil War : new explorations of America's enduring conflict / edited by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault.
"In 1873, four years before what historians consider the official end of Reconstruction, Mark Twain wrote that the Civil War era already had become a historical perennial. "History," Twain wrote, "is never done with inquiring of these years, and summoning witnesses about them and trying to understan...
| Uniform Title: | New directions in southern history.
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2021].
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| Series: | New directions in southern history.
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| Physical Description: | 234 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- West African missions, colonies, and imperial anxieties in the United States, 1834-1865 / Daniel Kilbride
- The abolition lobby : its development, successes, and disintegration, 1836-1845 / Stanley Harrold
- Officers of the US Army Veteran Reserve Corps : motivation and expectations of veteran soldiers during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Paul A. Cimbala
- "Bent on suicide" : the political rhetoric of suicide in the Civil War-era South / Diane Miller Sommerville
- Warrior turned reformer : Emory Upton and the modernization of the American Army / James R. Hedtke
- Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and World War I : finding "pax plantation" at Camp Gordon, Georgia / John David Smith
- The man and the martyr : Abraham Lincoln in African American history and memory / James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
- "If at first you don't secede" : war and remembrance / Stephen J. Whitfield
- Dwight Eisenhower and Civil War legacies / Michael J. Birkner
- Playing with history : Walt Disney's historical films, 1946-1966 / Raymond Arsenault.