The struggle for equality
Subtitle: essays on sectional conflict, the Civil War, and the long reconstruction
By: edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, and Jennifer L. Weber
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780813931739; 9780813931777
Subjects: History; Equality; Social aspects; Civil rights; Social classes; Social stratification; Social conditions; Political aspects; African Americans; Social structure; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The radicalism of the abolitionists revisited : the case of the Society of Friends / Ryan P. Jordan; title: Abolitionism as logical conclusion : General James S. Wadsworth as a case study in anti-Southern sentiment and the radicalizing experience of the Civil War / Judith A. Hunter; title: Our man in Paris : John Meredith Read Jr. and the discontents of American republicanism, 1860-1896 / Philip M. Katz; title: A dynamic for success and failure : discipline, cause, and comrades in the relationship between officers and enlisted men in Lee's army / Joseph T. Glatthaar; title: All the president's men : the politicization of Union soldiers and how they saved Abraham Lincoln / Jennifer L. Weber; title: Abraham Lincoln's last "stump speech" : September 3, 1863 / Ronald C. White Jr; title: "The power of making me miserable" : Abraham Lincoln and race / Bruce Dain; title: "Public women" and sexual politics during the American Civil War / Catherine Clinton; title: Wendell Phillips and the idea of industrial democracy in early postbellum America / Brian Greenberg.; title: The strange career of Jim Longstreet : history and contingency in the Civil War era / James K. Hogue; title: The grasshopper plague, 1874-1878, and social welfare : the postbellum prospects for relief, recovery, and reform / Thomas C. Cox; title: The wrongful court-martial and posthumous presidential pardon of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, USMA 1877 / Tom Carhart; title: For god and lodge : black fraternal orders and the evolution of African American religion in the postbellum South / John M. Giggie; title: Peddling the lost cause : a southern white woman at work / Michele Gillespie; title: Race and municipal reform in the progressive era : the adoption of at-large elections in Norfolk, Virginia, 1914-1918 / Peyton McCrary; title: School of a soldier : World War II as a transformative experience in the life of Dr. Joseph T. Taylor / Monroe H. Little; title: An awful choice : Bayard Rustin and New York City's civil rights wars, 1968 / Jerald Podair.