The American Civil War was an extraordinary event. It was a military, political, social, and constitutional milestone that shaped the nation's understanding of unity and freedom, if imperfectly, into
The boys in Blue and Grey who fought from Gettysburg to Savanah. How soldiers lived in camp and behind the lines and what they thought about the war and their lives afterward.
The Freedmen's Bureau was an extraordinary agency established by Congress in 1865, born of the expansion of federal power during the Civil War and the Union's desire to protect and provide for the Sou
The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this lively and well-documented book
Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to w
Historians with degrees from American universities and two graduate students have contributed 15 essays that consider the experience of the Union soldiers on the northern home front, often through the
By focusing on specific communities, these essays examine the efforts of individuals and small groups to build their vision of the New South. Ranging across the region, from Texas to Virginia, the e
"These essays provide a rich portrait of how the self and its deepest commitments have driven some of the most important, vital scholarship of the last fifty years." —Georgia Historical Quarterly"...
"This fine collection demonstrates that the field of Reconstruction history is alive and flourshing, and that a new generation of scholars is bringing fresh insights to this most controversial era of
