This distracted and anarchical people
Subtitle: new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North
By: edited by Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780823245680; 9780823245697
Subjects: Politics and government; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: new answers for old questions about the Civil War-era North / Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith; title: "A press that speaks its opinions frankly and openly and fearlessly": the contentious relationship between the Democratic press and the party in the antebellum North / Matthew Isham; title: Abraham Lincoln, manhood, and nineteenth-century American political culture / Michael Thomas Smith; title: Damnable treason or party organs? democratic secret societies in Pennsylvania / Robert M. Sandow; title: Copperheads in Connecticut: a peace movement that imperiled the union / Matthew Warshauer; title: "All manner of schemes and rascalities": the politics of promotion in the Union Army / Timothy J. Orr; title: "For my part I dont care who is elected president": the Union Army and the elections of 1864 / Jonathan W. White; title: New perspectives in Civil War ethnic history and their implications for twenty-first-century scholarship / Christian B. Keller; title: The black flag and Confederate soldiers: total war from the bottom up? / Michael J. Bennett; title: Liberia and the U.S. Civil War / Karen Fisher Younger; title: "No regular marriage": African American veterans and marriage practices after emancipation / Andrew L. Slap; title: "She is a member of the 23rd": Lucy Nichols and the community of the Civil War regiment / Barbara A. Gannon.