| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
UnCivil wars |
| Contents |
Introduction: Witnessing the "blind ruck of event" / Kathleen Diffley and Benjamin Fagan -- Looking out upon the boundless sea of the future; or, Anticipation / Jeffrey Insko -- After Sumter: the surge of war and periodical outcry / Kathleen Diffley -- William and Ellen Craft, the Georgia fugitives, and the war's uncertain outcomes / Barbara McCaskill -- The latest fake news from 1861 / Christopher Hanlon -- Mourning in ballad and requiem / Timothy Sweet -- Stealing freedom : Robert Smalls and modeling citizenship / Aston Gonzalez -- "Companion ... to the pending struggle" : 1862's "marking maps" and the Civil War spatial imaginary / Jillian Spivey Caddell -- The shadow of the times : Napoleon in 1862 / Elizabeth Duquette -- Emancipation illustrated / Benjamin Fagan -- Sketches from the trenches : image and invention in Alcott's hospital sketches / Jane E. Schultz -- Never set in stone : the commemorative image of Stonewall Jackson as a transatlantic hero / Samuel Graber -- "Molly" : uncaptioned / Julia Stern -- What comes to hand : archives of exigency, 1864 / Christopher Hager -- Printed with a "steal penn" : handwriting the nation in Civil War prison newspapers / James Berkey -- Reading, infirmity, and suicide / Sarah E. Gardner -- Unraveling Confederate sentiment : the unfinished story of a sock / Kristen Treen -- Far away, yet still so close : Lincoln, memory, the Black West, and the mission of the war / Eric Gardner -- The architecture of transnational contingencies : Julia Collins's The curse of caste and the legend of the Lindaraja Mirador / Nathan L. Grant -- Lincoln's rocking chair and the unstable signs of history / Martin T. Buinicki -- 1866 and after : Melville, Jane Jackson, and the literature of emancipation / Cody Marrs -- Afterimage / Benjamin Fagan and Kathleen Diffley |
| Summary |
"This volume collects twenty-two black & white images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the war. Focusing on images that range from a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, to a census graph published in the New York Times, to a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the front, the essays in this collection reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and a visual register to make sense of the world around them"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Biography
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Maps
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Press coverage
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Maps.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140246
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Press coverage
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140214
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Maps
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Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fagan, Benjamin, editor
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Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth, 1950- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780820355948 |
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0820355941 |
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