{"product_id":"the-civil-war-era-isbn-9781405106917","title":"The Civil War Era","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains an extensive selection of writings and illustrations on the American Civil War\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReflects society and culture as well as the politics and key battles of the Civil War\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReproduces and links primary and secondary sources to encourage exploration of the material\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes editorial introductions and study questions to aid understanding\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The American Civil War in the Twenty-First Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Civil War Chronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I: THE IMPENDING CRISIS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssays (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 “A House Divided” by Bruce Catton (1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 “The Divided South, Democracy’s Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War” by William W. Freehling (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 John Calhoun, speech on the Compromise of 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Chapter 1, “In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity” from Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harried Beecher Stowe (1851).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Louisa S. McCord, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1853).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Escaped slave advertisements from The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II: JUSTIFYING THE WAR.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 “The Spirit of ’61,” by George Fredrickson (1965).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Alexander Stephens, “The Confederate Cornerstone” (1861).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, Diary entry, (1860).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The North Carolina Standard, “Disunion for Existing Causes,” editorial, (1860).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Alexander Stephens, A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (1868).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. THE BATTLE FRONT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘Dangled Over Hell’: The Trauma of the Civil War,” by Eric T. Dean, Jr. (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Wilbur Fisk, letter from the Peninsula Campaign, (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 “J.C.R.,” “The Battle of Fredricksburg,” Charleston Daily Courier (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, a.k.a. Edwin R. Wakeman, Letter from the Red River (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART IV: THE HOME FRONT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssays (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Reid Mitchell, “The War at Home” (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Jeanie Attie, “For the Boys in Blue: Organizing the U.S. Sanitary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommission” (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Gertrude Clanton Thomas, diary entry (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Fannie Perry, letter to Norfleet Perry (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Abraham Lincoln, letter to Lydia Bixby (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART V: WARTIME ECONOMIES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Industrial Workers and the Costs of War” by Philip Paludan (1989?).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Wilbur J. Cash, The Mind of the South (1941).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Mary Herrick, letter to Secretary of War William Stanton (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Corporal John H.P. Payne, Massachusetts 55th regiment, letter (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART VI: SLAVERY DURING WARTIME.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssays (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 A Loss of Mastery,” by James L. Roark (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 “‘Answering Bells is Played Out’: Slavery and the Civil War” by Tera Hunter (1999).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Mary Chestnut, diary entry (1861).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Sgt. George W. Hatton, letter from Wilson’s Landing, Virginia (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART VII: EMANCIPATION.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation” by Eric Foner (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Lydia Maria Child, letter to Abraham Lincoln (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Abraham Lincoln, letter to Horace Greeley (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Frederick Douglass, “Emancipation Proclaimed, Douglass’ Monthly (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Abraham Lincoln, Address at Gettysburg, (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural (1865).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVIII. RESISTANCE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 A Multiplicity of Grievances,” by Iver Bernstein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Abraham Lincoln, “Opinion on the Draft” (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Adelaide Fowler, letter to Henry Fowler (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIX. WAR ON THE FRONTIER.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 The Way to Pea Ridge,” by Alvin Josephy, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 St. Paul Pioneer Press, account of Sioux executions (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Mary Livermore, “Patriotic Iowa” (1888).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eX. WARTIME POLITICS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssays (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 The Confederate South at High Tide,” by Emory Thomas (1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 “To Finish the Task: The Election of 1864,” by William Gienapp (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Chiefly About War Matters” (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 “Work,” the Boston Evening Transcipt (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXI. GENDER BATTLES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssays (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 What Shall We Do? Confederate Women Confront the Crisis,” by Drew Gilpin Faust (1999?).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 “When God Made Me I Wasn’t Much, But I’s a Man Now,” by Jim Cullen (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Benjamin Butler, General Order #28 (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Harriet Tubman, letter from Beaufort, South Carolina (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 Louisa May Alcott, “Chapter One: Obtaining Supplies,” from Hospital Sketches (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXII. THE WRITTEN WAR.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Popular Literary Culture in Wartime,” by Alice Fahs (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Walt Whitman, “The Great Army of the Sick” (1863).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 Walt Whitman, “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim” (1865?).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 Julia Ward Howe, “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 Rebecca Harding Davis, “John Lamar” (1862).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXIII. VICTORY AND DEFEAT.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 The Same Holy Cause,” by James McPherson (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 Sarah Morgan Dawson, diary entry (1865).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 Chaplain Garland H. White, letter from Richmond (1865).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXIV. RECONSTRUCTION.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60 ‘Privilege’ and ‘Protection’: Civil and Political Rights During Reconstruction,” by Laura F. Edwards (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpts (with Headnotes and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61 Lydia Maria Child, letter to Sarah Shaw (1866).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62 Margaret Mitchell on the Freedmens’ Bureau, from Gone with the Wind (1936).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63 Thomas Dixon, “To the Reader,” from The Clansman (1904).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64 Emeline Brumfield, account of a Ku Klux Kan visit (date?).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXV. MEMORY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssay (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65 Quarrel Forgotten or Revolution Remembered? Reunion and Race in the Memory of the Civil War, 1875-1913,” by David Blight (undated).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocument Excerpt (with Headnote and Questions):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e66 Frederick Douglass, “The United States Cannot Remain Half-Slave and Half-Free” (1883)\u003c\/p\u003e  “This anthology of sources for the Civil War era is a well contextualized collection of documents and secondary sources. Highlighted sections ask thought-provoking questions, directing students’ attention and challenging them to come to grips with the complexities of this era. This book is an extraordinary contribution to teaching. It is the textbook that teachers dream of finding.” \u003ci\u003eOrville Vernon Burton, University of Illinois\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The pulling together of all this material into one coherent volume represents a considerable editorial achievement, and one that highlights not just the most recent scholarly approaches to Civil War but also some of the reasons for the subject's perennial fascination for students, academics and the public alike.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eLyde Cullen Sizer\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Political Work of American Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850–1872\u003c\/i\u003e (2000).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Cullen\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eThe American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), among other books. He is also the creator of a website, \u003ci\u003eAmerican History for Cynical Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e: www.ecfs.org\/projects\/jcullen.\u003c\/p\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990187786469,"sku":"NP9781405106917","price":63.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405106917.jpg?v=1761786842","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-civil-war-era-isbn-9781405106917","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}