Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including
mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect …

Over three million young men left home, shouldered rifles, and set about killing one another
in the 1860s. Behind, they left wives and sweethearts. The 50,000 books about the war have …

Abstract The United States began to look beyond its continental boundaries and acquire a
new, far-flung empire in the late nineteenth century. Two decades later, a national draft and …

IN MARCH 1918 AN EDITORIAL in the San Antonio Express urged the city government of
San Antonio, Texas, to work with the military to clean up the city and make it a fit place for …

War produces cultural shifts so dramatic that sexual attitudes, mores, and morality undergo
sea changes when nations are under siege. Why should the American Civil War be any …

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Sexual violence has been a ubiquitous part of warfare since the beginning of recorded time.
From ancient myths and wars to modern conflicts, the dehumanization and punishment of a …

The American Civil War drew thousands of white and black women into paid and unpaid
work for the Union and Confederate armies. While the armies provided some women with a …

This chapter focuses on a decidedly narrow Puritan genre, the" execution narrative" the texts
produced and distributed before, during, and after a criminal's public execution. Beginning …

McCarthy the transformation of a kind of anxiety fostered by US foreign affairs into one
primarily concerned with domestic subversions. Since the beginning of the Cold War …