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Author | : Elizabeth R. Varon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 019086060X |
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Lincoln's Union coalition sought to deliver the South from slaveholder tyranny and deliver to it the blessings of modern civilization. Over the course of the war, supporters of black freedom built the case that slavery was the obstacle to national reunion and that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit Northern and Southern whites alike. To sustain their morale, Northerners played up evidence of white Southern Unionism, of antislavery progress in the slaveholding border states, and of disaffection among Confederates. But the Union's emphasis on Southern deliverance served, ironically, not only to galvanize loyal Amer icans but also to galvanize disloyal ones. Confederates, fighting to establish an independent slaveholding republic, scorned the Northern promise of liberation and argued that the emancipation of blacks was synonymous with the subjugation of the white South.
Author | : Earl J. Hess |
Publisher | : North's Civil War |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780823217991 |
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Traces the influence of nationalism on the willingness of Northerners to fight in the Civil War
Author | : Andrew Delbanco |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0735224137 |
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A New York Times Notable Book Selection Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award A New York Times Critics' Best Book "Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates This book tells the story of America’s original sin—slavery—through politics, law, literature, and above all, through the eyes of enslavedblack people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, thereby forcing the nation to confront the truth about itself. The struggle over slavery divided not only the American nation but also the hearts and minds of individual citizens faced with the timeless problem of when to submit to unjust laws and when to resist. The War Before the War illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.
Author | : William Alan Blair |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469614057 |
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With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Author | : Earl J. Hess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1989-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814734636 |
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Author | : Brian Taylor |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469659786 |
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In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of black veterans. Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment to support the cause of emancipation, hoping that a Northern victory would bring about the end of slavery. But others counseled patience and negotiation, drawing on a historical memory of unfulfilled promises for black military service in previous American wars and encouraging black men to leverage their position to demand abolition and equal citizenship. In doing this, they also began redefining what it meant to be a black man who fights for the United States. These debates over African Americans' enlistment expose a formative moment in the development of American citizenship: black Northerners' key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship, a term that had no precise definition prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. In articulating this demand, Taylor argues, black Northerners participated in the remaking of American citizenship itself—unquestionably one of the war's most important results.
Author | : Russell McClintock |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807886327 |
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When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised book, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the Northern response to what was essentially a political crisis. He argues that although Northerners' reactions to Southern secession were understood and expressed through partisan newspapers and officials, the decision fell into the hands of an ever-smaller group of people until finally it was Lincoln alone who would choose whether the future of the American republic was to be determined through peace or by sword.
Author | : Gary W. Gallagher |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674045629 |
Download The Union War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union.
Author | : James Massie Gillispie |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1574412558 |
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This study argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. It explains how Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them.
Author | : James Matthew Gallman |
Publisher | : Civil War in the North |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Includes essays on the Northern home front. This title brings together essays on the economic, social, and domestic aspects of life in the North during the Civil War. It tackles a range of Civil War home front topics - from urban violence and Gettysburg's wartime history to entrepreneurial endeavors and the war's economic impact.