Julie L Holcomb

Exploring the American Civil War Through 50 Historic Treasures

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will deploy a wide range of material culture objects, artwork, and landscapes to the tell the story of the American Civil War. The objects, will document the war's history from its beginnings in the fierce debates over slavery through its legacy, including recent debates about Confederate monuments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781538118559
• ISBN-10: 1538118556
• Artikelnr.: 60417138

Autorenporträt

Julie Holcomb is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Museum Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Holcomb received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Creative Writing from Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon; her Master of Library and Information Science, with a specialization in Archives and Records Management from the University of Texas at Austin (; and her PhD in Transatlantic History from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is the author of Moral Commerce: Quakers and The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy and the editor of Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22nd Iowa Infantry. In addition to her books, Holcomb has published widely in a variety of academic and popular venues.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Object Timeline
Civil War Timeline
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part One: Causes
1. For Sale - "A Day I'll Never Forgit"
2. Good Credit, Good Prices, & Good Profits: The Slave Labor Economy
3. Buy for the Sake of the Slave!: Quakers, Antislavery, and the Boycott of
Slave Labor
4. Strike a Blow for Freedom: Black Activism and the Abolitionist Movement
5. "I will be harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice": The
Antebellum Antislavery Movement
6. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner: Challenges to the Expansion of Slavery in
the West
Part Two: Politics
7. "A Man Kidnapped!": Northern Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
8. "Honest Old Abe is Bound to Win": The Election of 1860
9. The Union is Dissolved!: The Secession Crisis
10. "Strike for Your Altars and Your Fires!": The Fight for the Border States
11. Securing Alliances: The Confederate Government and the Five Tribes
12. John Bull Makes a Choice: Cotton and International Politics
Part Three: Battlefield
13. A Sacred Emblem of the Battle of Glorieta Pass
14. Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site: The Indian Wars in the Civil
War Era
15. A Terrible Slaughter: The Battle of Gettysburg
16. "We Will Prove Ourselves Men": The United States Colored Troops
17. Caring for the Wounded: Nurses in the Civil War
18. "His names was Bidwell Pedley": Caring for the Dead during the Civil War
Part Four: Officers
19. "Let them surrender and go home": Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee at
Appomattox Court House
20. Lee's Right Army: Stonewall Jackson
21. "The Beast": Benjamin Butler and the Occupation of New Orleans
22. The "Father of Black Nationalism": Martin Delany
Part Five: Soldiers
23. "Those d-d black hatted fellows": The Iron Brigade of the West
24. Lee's Shock Troops: Hood's Texas Brigade
25. "What is to be done with the prisoners?": Union and Confederate Prisons
26. Days of Infamy and Disgrace: The New York City Draft Riots
27. The Evolution of the Union Cavalry
Part Six: Home Front
28. "The Last Thought of a Dying Father": The Northern Home Front
29. "Bread or Blood!": The Southern Home Front during the Civil War
30. "Pounding on the Rock": African American Families in the Civil War North
31. "I Wanted to Be My Own General": Guerilla Warfare and the Homefront
32. On Her Own: The Texas Home Front during the Civil War
Part Seven: Symbols
33. "The Speechless Agony of the Fettered Slave": The Symbolism of the
Antislavery Movement
34. "The Little Woman Who Made the Great War": Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle
Tom's Cabin
35. "If you want my flag, you'll have to take it over my dead body": National
and Regimental Flags during the Civil War
36. Setting the Beat for War: Popular Music in the North and the South
Part Eight: Technology
37. The Great Locomotive Chaise: Railroads and Military Strategy
38. A Scientific Foundation for Medical Care: The Medical and Surgical History
of the War of the Rebellion
39. "A curious marine monster": Ironclads and Riverine Warfare
40. The Silk Dress Balloon: Aeronautics in the Civil War
Part Nine: Emancipation
41. Freedom's Fort: The Beginnings of Emancipation
42. An Abolition War: The Emancipation Proclamation
43. Troubled Refuge: Contraband Camps
44. A New Birth of Freedom: Thirteenth Amendment
45. Help Me Find My People: Reconstructing Black Families
Part Ten: Legacy
46. "I Won't Be Reconstructed": Southerners and Confederate Defeat
47. Memorializing the Dead: Race, Heritage, and the Lost Cause
48. Reconciliation and Reunion: Blue and Gray Reunions in the Post-Civil War
Era
49. The Black Confederate Story: Civil War History and Memory in the Age of the
Internet
50. Stone Mountain: Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century
Afterword
Index
Bibliography
About the Author