The New York Times disunion : a history of the Civil War /

From 2011 to 2015, the New York Times Op-Ed section hosted the Disunion blog, an online series launched to commemorate the long string of anniversaries over the five-year course of America's most destructive and divisive conflict. Celebrated upon publication for their startling originality and...

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Other Authors: Widmer, Edward L. (Editor), Risen, Clay (Editor), Kalogerakis, George (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
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505 0 |a Cover; Disunion; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Secession; Introduction; How Lincoln Undid the Union; Cup of Wrath and Fire; The Strange Victory of the Palmetto State; Learning from Buchanan; Confederates at the Gate; How a Map Divided Virginia; Texas Catches Fire; The Death Knell of Slavery; 2. Slavery and Emancipation; Introduction; Visualizing Slavery; The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Civil War; What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves; William Webb's World; A Capital under Slavery's Shadow; Black or White?; Was Freedom Enough?; Our Servants Do Pretty Much as They Please. 
505 8 |a The Grove of GladnessWhen Freedom Came to Charleston; 3. Women and the Home Front; Introduction; Women at War; Laugh During Wartime; The Civil War's Rip Van Winkle; General Butler and the Women; Scrapbooking the Civil War; The Civil War and the Fourth Estate; Making War on the Draft; Going to the Fair; Albert Cashier's Secret; Blacks, Baseball, and the Civil War; 4. The Battlefield; Introduction; Blue, Gray, and Everything in Between; The War Comes Home for Lee; The Boys of War; The Purchase by Blood; The Fighting Second; Winning the Field but Not the War; Striking the Blow at Fort Wagner. 
505 8 |a Life on the BattlefieldLeft Behind at Chickamauga; Humanity and Hope in a Southern Prison; How Coffee Fueled the Civil War; Was the Burning of Columbia a War Crime?; 5. The West and Native Americans; Introduction; The Bear Wars; Sam Houston, We Have a Problem; The Choctaw Confederates; How the West Was Won; The Lone Star State Turns South; The Rise of the West; Jennison's Jayhawkers; The Cherokee Free Their Slaves; Becoming Mark Twain; 6. Law and Rights; Introduction; States' Rights, but to What?; Freedom and Restraint; The Lieber Code; Rape and Justice in the Civil War. 
505 8 |a Lincoln Answers His CriticsThe Father of the Fourteenth Amendment; The Great Writ, North and South; The Nashville Experiment; Lincoln, God, and the Constitution; How the Civil War Changed the Constitution; 7. The Confederacy; Introduction; A Bad Document's Good Idea; Hastily Composed; The President and His General; The Birth of "Dixie"; The Drought That Changed the War; The Free Men of Color Go to War; Passover in the Confederacy; Papers, Please!; Lee Surrendered, but His Lieutenants Kept Fighting; Confederates in the Jungle; 8. The Civil War and the World; Introduction. 
505 8 |a Lincoln's Mexican VisitorThe Other Emancipation Proclamation; Bully for Garibaldi; Why Bismarck Loved Lincoln; Lincoln's PR Coup; Holland's Plan for America's Slaves; The Civil War and Hawaii; The Russians Are Coming!; Fighting off the Coast of France; 9. Abraham Lincoln and the Federal Government; Introduction; The Sound of Lincoln's Silence; Seward's Folly; A Capitol Dilemma; Andrew Johnson's Difficult Task; The Do-​Everything Congress; Lincoln's Letter to the Editor; The Civil War's War on Fraud; Counting the Costs of the Civil War; Rewriting the Gettysburg Address 
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