Wars within a War
Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
Published on 1. June 2009
312 pages
978-0-8078-9844-4 (ISBN)
Description
Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman’s poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant’s imposing tomb, and Hollywood’s long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The contributors are William Blair, Stephen Cushman, Drew Gilpin Faust, Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Harold Holzer, James Marten, Stephanie McCurry, James M. McPherson, Carol Reardon, and Joan Waugh.
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Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
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Joan Waugh is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of the award-winning The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books, including Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Women Numerous and Armed: Gender and the Politics of Subsistence in the Civil War South
- Friend or Foe: Treason and the Second Confiscation Act
- My Enemies Are Crushed: McClellan and Lincoln
- Profile in Leadership: Generalship and Resistance in Robert E. Lee's First Month in Command of the Army of Northern Virginia
- In Your Hands That Musket Means Liberty: African American Soldiers and the Battle of Olustee
- With Malice toward Both: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in Caricature
- Walt Whitman's Real Wars
- Hollywood Has It Both Ways: The Rise, Fall, and Reappearance of the Lost Cause in American Film
- Battle over the Bodies: Burying and Reburying the Civil War Dead, 1865-1871
- Not a Veteran in the Poorhouse: Civil War Pensions and Soldiers' Homes
- William T. Sherman in Postwar Georgia's Collective Memory, 1864-1914
- The Nation's Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City
- Contributors
- Index
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