Massachusetts and the Civil War
Subtitle: The Commonwealth and National Disunion
By: edited by Matthew Mason, Katheryn P. Viens and Conrad Edick Wright
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781625341501; 9781625341495
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: unification and (re-)division: the significance of Massachusetts in the Civil War era; title: Part I. The opposition to slavery; title: The union of abolitionists and emancipationists in Civil War/era Massachusetts / John Stauffer; title: "Constitution or no constitution, law or no law": the Boston Vigilance Committees, 1841-1861 / Dean Grodzins; title: "Today abolitionist is merged in citizen": radical abolitionists and the union war / Peter Wirzbicki; title: The rise and fall of the abolitionist republic / Richard S. Newman; title: Part II. The war years; title: The politics of unionism: Edward Everett, the Constitutional Union Party, and the election of 1860 / Matthew Mason; title: McClellan in the hub: Boston's financiers and the war for emancipation / Carol Bundy; title: The bonds of print: reading on home front and battlefield / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray; title: Part III. Reconciliation; title: Mourning Charles Sumner: the flag resolution and the complications of Civil War memory / Sarah Purcell; title: Reporting from the south: Massachusetts teachers and freedmen's education / Amy F. Morsman; title: The union of gentlemen restored: college-educated northern veterans, reconciliation, and northern honor / Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai.