Voices of Civil War America

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
Herausgeber: Kreiser, Lawrence A. Jr.; Browne, Ray B.

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Produktbeschreibung

Letting ordinary people speak for themselves, this book uses primary documents to highlight daily life among Americans-Union and Confederate, black and white, soldier and civilian-during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Focusing on routines as basic as going to school and cooking and cleaning, Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life explores the lives of ordinary Americans during one of the nation's most tumultuous eras. The book emphasizes the ordinary rather than the momentous to help students achieve a true understanding of mid-19th-century American culture and society. Recognizing that there is no better way to learn history than to allow those who lived it to speak for themselves, the authors utilize primary documents to depict various aspects of daily life, including politics, the military, economics, domestic life, material culture, religion, intellectual life, and leisure. Each of the documents is augmented by an introduction and aftermath, as well as lists of topics to consider and questions to ask.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 923g
• ISBN-13: 9780313377402
• ISBN-10: 0313377405
• Artikelnr.: 29925858

Autorenporträt

Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. is associate professor of history at Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, AL. Ray B. Browne, prior to his death in 2009, was professor emeritus in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Civil War America and Reconstruction How to Evaluate
Primary Documents Chronology of Events DOCUMENTS OF CIVIL WAR AMERICA
Politics 1. Senator Stephen Douglas's Support of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
(1854) 2. Reaction to Lincoln's First Inaugural Address in the Staunton
(Virginia) Spectator (1861) 3. A "Disgrace to the American People": The
Illinois Legislature Denounces the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 4. A
Reaction to the Gettysburg Address in Harper's Weekly (1863) 5. "Election
Day . the Most Momentous Since the Days of Washington": Diary Entries by
Union Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Lyman (1864) 6. The 14th Constitutional
Amendment and the 15th Constitutional Amendment (1868, 1870) 7. Rutherford
B. Hayes's Inaugural Address (1877) Military Life 8. "To Assist . in the
Defense of Our Common Country": David Pierson to William H. Pierson (April
22, 1861) 9. Hardtack and Coffee, or the Unwritten Story of Army Life
(1887) 10. "Valiantly Did the Heroic Descendants of Africa Move Forward .":
Letter from Captain Elias D. Strunke (1863) 11. "I Will Commence Writing
You a Letter": Description of Life in Fredericksburg, Virginia (1863) 12.
"The Balls Make a Very Loud Singing Noise When They Pass Near You .": An
Experience of Battle (1861) 13. "Our Dear Boys-Now as Ever-I Commit Them
into Thy Hands": A Confederate Woman Supports the War Effort (1862) 14. "We
Now Are in Indian Country .": Life Near a Reservation (1867-1868)
Economics 15. "The Soil Is All the Best Quality .": Results of the
Homestead Act (1872) 16. The Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad:
An Eyewitness Observance (1869) 17. "The Chinese Must Go": Article in The
Illustrated Wasp (1878) 18. "A Farmer's Life": Article in The Atlantic
Monthly (1877) 19. "The Old Chisholm Trail": A Cowboy Ballad (1870s) 20.
"Regulations to Be Observed by All Persons Employed in the Lewiston Mills"
(1867) Domestic Life 21. "This Morning We Have Heard That [Father] Is Safe
and I Can Take up My Journal Again": Diary Entries of Emma LeConte
(January-February 1865) 22. "Perhaps a Courtship of Generous Length .": A
Columnist's Advice to Couples (1871) 23. A Manual for New Mothers: Domestic
Advice from Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869) 24. "She
Bore the Yoke and Wore the Name of Wife": In Praise of Domesticity (1872)
25. "Our Household Servants": Article in The Galaxy (September 1872)
Material Life 26. ". The Air of Substantialness": A Plan for Home Ownership
(1866) 27. "Home to Thanksgiving": A Currier and Ives Lithograph (1867) 28.
Improving Mealtime: Recipes from The National Cook Book (1866) 29. Women's
Fashion in an Advertising Lithograph (1869) 30. Consumerism Benefits from
the "Dailies": A Newspaper Advertisement for Household Goods (1874)
Religion 31. An Argument for Slave Ownership: Reverend George Armstrong's
The Christian Doctrine of Slavery (1857) 32. The Battle between Good and
Evil: An African American Spiritual (1872) 33. ". The Heat Was So Intense
That It Drove Us Down to the Waters .": An Account of the Chicago Fire
(1873) 34. "We Sang 'Rock of Ages' as I Thought I Had Never Heard It Sung
Before .": Frances Willard's Crusade against Alcohol, from Glimpses of
Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman (1889) 35. "Baby
Looking Out for Me": From Samuel Irenaeus Prime's Thoughts on the Death of
Little Children (1865) 36. "A Buddhist Mission in the United States?": A
Satire Highlighting Divisions among Christians (1872) Intellectual Life
37. Funding Agricultural Colleges: The Morrill Act (1862) 38. "A
Physician's Story": Continental Monthly (December 1862) 39. "Knowledge Is
Power," Lesson XXII, McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader: Instructive
Lessons for the Young (1866) 40. Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York
with the Boot-Blacks by Horatio Alger Jr. (1868) 41. "Harvest of Death":
Photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan (1863) 42. "The Blue and the Gray" by
Francis Miles Finch (1867) Recreation and Leisure 43. "Clubs and Club
Life": The Galaxy (1876) 44. Publicity Photo for P. T. Barnum's American
Museum (c. mid-1850s-mid-1860s) 45. "The Baseball Glove Comes to Baseball":
Albert Spalding (1875) 46. "Christmas, 1871": Manufacturer and Builder
(1871) 47. "The Checkered Game of Life": An Advertisement in The Nursery: A
Monthly Magazine For Youngest Readers (1877) Appendix 1: Biographical
Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in Text Appendix 2: Glossary of
Terms Mentioned in Text Bibliography Index