The Civil War Era

There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology, from
Lincoln's Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a
visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are
both visual and written, and the secondary materials present a
remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship.

• Contains an extensive selection of writings and illustrations
  on the American Civil War

• Reflects society and culture as well as the politics and key
  battles of the Civil War

• Reproduces and links primary and secondary sources to encourage
  exploration of the material

• Includes editorial introductions and study questions to aid
  understanding

Auteur
Lyde Cullen Sizer is Associate Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Political Work of American Women Writers and the Civil War, 18501872 (2000).

Jim Cullen teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. He is the author of The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past (1995) and The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (2003), among other books. He is also the creator of a website, American History for Cynical Beginners: www.ecfs.org/projects/jcullen.

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There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology. Lincoln's Gettysburg address is here and so too is a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary sources present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship. The book encourages its readers to "listen in" and make sense of the conversations of historians-and to join them by interpreting material related to their arguments.

Each section begins with a preface that pulls together secondary and primary sources, and introductions to the primary sources Web that will offer further avenues for exploration. Primary documents such as poetry, short stories, editorials, newspaper articles, speeches, illustrations, and political cartoons, as well as more personal documents like letters and diary entries, round out each section. Bibliographies and a timeline are also included, making this an authoritative, easy-to-use primer on the best research and writings about the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Résumé
There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology, from Lincoln's Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary materials present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship.

• Contains an extensive selection of writings and illustrations on the American Civil War

• Reflects society and culture as well as the politics and key battles of the Civil War

• Reproduces and links primary and secondary sources to encourage exploration of the material

• Includes editorial introductions and study questions to aid understanding

Contenu
Acknowledgments. Introduction: The American Civil War in the Twenty-First Century.

A Civil War Chronology.

PART I: THE IMPENDING CRISIS.

Essays (with Headnotes and Questions):.

1 A House Divided by Bruce Catton (1960).

2 The Divided South, Democracy's Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War by William W. Freehling (1997).

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

3 John Calhoun, speech on the Compromise of 1850.

4 Chapter 1, In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harried Beecher Stowe (1851).

5 Louisa S. McCord, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853).

6 Escaped slave advertisements from The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853).

PART II: JUSTIFYING THE WAR.

Essay (with Headnote and Questions):.

7 The Spirit of '61, by George Fredrickson (1965).

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

8 Alexander Stephens, The Confederate Cornerstone (1861).

9 Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, Diary entry, (1860).

10 The North Carolina Standard, Disunion for Existing Causes, editorial, (1860).

11 Alexander Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (1868).

III. THE BATTLE FRONT.

Essay (with Headnote and Questions):.

12 'Dangled Over Hell': The Trauma of the Civil War, by Eric T. Dean, Jr. (1997).

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

13 Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895).

14 Wilbur Fisk, letter from the Peninsula Campaign, (1862).

15 J.C.R., The Battle of Fredricksburg, Charleston Daily Courier (1863).

16 Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, a.k.a. Edwin R. Wakeman, Letter from the Red River (1864).

PART IV: THE HOME FRONT.

Essays (with Headnotes and Questions):.

17 Reid Mitchell, The War at Home (1990).

18 Jeanie Attie, For the Boys in Blue: Organizing the U.S. Sanitary.

Commission (1998).

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

19 Gertrude Clanton Thomas, diary entry (1864).

20 Fannie Perry, letter to Norfleet Perry (1862).

21 Abraham Lincoln, letter to Lydia Bixby (1864).

PART V: WARTIME ECONOMIES.

Essay (with Headnote and Questions):.

22 Industrial Workers and the Costs of War by Philip Paludan (1989?).

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

23 Wilbur J. Cash, The Mind of the South (1941).

24 Mary Herrick, letter to Secretary of War William Stanton (1863).

25 Corporal John H.P. Payne, Massachusetts 55th regiment, letter (1864).

PART VI: SLAVERY DURING WARTIME.

Essays (with Headnotes and Questions):.

26 A Loss of Mastery, by James L. Roark (1978).

27 'Answering Bells is Played Out': Slavery and the Civil War by Tera Hunter (1999).

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

28 Mary Chestnut, diary entry (1861).

29 Sgt. George W. Hatton, letter from Wilson's Landing, Virginia (1864).

PART VII: EMANCIPATION.

Essay (with Headnote and Questions):.

30 The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation by Eric Foner (1994).

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

31 Lydia Maria Child, letter to Abraham Lincoln (1862).

32 Abraham Lincoln, letter to Horace Greeley (1862).

33 Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation (1862).

34 Frederick Douglass, Emancipation Proclaimed, Douglass' Monthly (1862).

35 Abraham Lincoln, Address at Gettysburg, (1863).

36 Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural (1865).

VIII. RESISTANCE.

Essay (with Headnote and Questions):.

37 A Multiplicity of Grievances, by Iver Bernstein.

Document Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.

38 Abraham Lincoln, Opinion on the Draft (1863).

39 Adelaide Fowler, letter to Henry Fowler (1863).

IX. WAR ON THE FRONTIER.

Essay (with Headnote and Questions):.

40 The Way to Pea Ridge, by Alvin Josephy, Jr. Doc...