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This handbook is designed to provide a measure of understanding of this "most momentous era" of the United States history. Written by noted historians, these dramatic essays address the military, political, racial, social, cultural, and economic facets of the Civil War and its place in United States nation's legacy and memory.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Page 5
War timeline
Page 12
Introduction / by James McPherson
Page 19
The United States on the eve of the Civil War / by Edward L. Ayers
Page 27
Confronting slavery and revealing the "lost cause" / by James Oliver Horton
Page 35
Race in the Civil War era / by Ira Berlin
Page 42
The military experience / by Carol Reardon
Page 52
The changing war / by Peter S. Carmichael
Page 62
Emancipation and the quest for freedom / by Allen C. Guelzo
Page 73
Women amidst war / by Thavolia Glymph and Nina Silber
Page 82
The civilian experience in the Civil War / by Jean Baker
Page 94
Industry and economy during the Civil War / by Benjamin T. Arrington
Page 103
The Border States / by Amy Murrell Taylor
Page 112
The war and the westward movement / by Gregory Paynter Shine
Page 123
Reconstruction / by Eric Foner
Page 132
Death and dying / by Drew Gilpin Faust
Page 141
The legacy of the Civil War / by Rick Beard and Richard Rabinowitz
Page 150
The Civil War in American memory / by David W. Blight.
Page 162
Index
Page 174
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Includes index and illustrations (some color).
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