Home front
Subtitle: daily life in the Civil War North
By: Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, Scott Manning Stevens ; with a foreword by Adam Goodheart
Contributors: Terra Foundation for American Art; Newberry Library
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780226061856
Subjects: American Art; American Painting; Art and the war; Exhibitions; History
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition prepared by Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago and Newberry Library, held at the Newberry Library from September 27, 2013 to March 24, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (Pages 167-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: picturing war / Adam Goodheart; title: The home at war, the war at home: the visual culture of the Northern home front / Sarah Burns and Daniel Greene; title: The fabric of war: cotton, commodities, and contrabands / Peter John Brownlee; title: Other homes, other fronts: native America during the Civil War / Scott Manning Stevens; title: Nothing daunts Chicago: wartime relief on the home front / Daniel Greene; title: Rending and mending: the needle, the flag, and the wounds of war in Lilly Martin Spencer's Home of the red, white, and blue / Sarah Burns; title: Nature, nurture, nation: appetites for apples and autumn during the Civil War / Diane Dillon.