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 …

While soldiers were off fighting on the fields of war, civilians on the home front fought their
own daily struggles, sometimes removed from the violence but often enough from deep …

Based largely on Civil War veterans' own words, this book documents how many of these
men survived the extraordinary horrors and hardships of war with surprising resilience and …

Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately
involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of …

Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on
countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions …

Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War, this new study explores
the day-to-day life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope …

Americans in the middle decades of the nineteenth century were a people with boundless
energy capable of heroic deeds, monumental achievements, and tragic errors. In The Civil …

Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new
generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes …

This “layered, nuanced, and focused study” of Civil War era writings reveals a popular sense
of patriotism and hope in the midst of loss (Journal of American History). The American Civil …

As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation
continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read …