Stephen Berry argues in the afterword to Household War that this collection “is a meditation
on who counts” in Civil War history (287). Editors Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites …

Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays
in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront …

Abstract" This superb collection of essays builds on the central observation that the Civil War
was'a household war.'Households, Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites explain, were …

In a massive compendium Writing the Civil War, published in 1998, James M. McPherson
and William J. Cooper gathered essays from numerous scholars of the American Civil War …

A revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath
on Americans—young and old, black and white, northern and southern. Civil War America …

For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and
southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific …

Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters
and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first full …

Welcome to the special golden-anniversary issue of Civil War History. For the last fifty years
this journal has provided a home for the best scholars publishing in the field. This issue …

This volume offers a social historian's view of the Civil War, shifting the focus away from
political and military leaders to look at how the war affected, and was affected by, ordinary …

Southern home front studies have been one of the most robust areas of research in Civil War
and Southern history over the last three decades. The field can be broken into two broad …