Title Great Task Remaining Before Us : Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War

Published Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (286 pages) Series Reconstructing America Reconstructing America Contents Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Unfinished War -- A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction -- ��I Wanted a Gun��: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri -- ��The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky��: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865�1868 -- The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabama�s Postwar Home Front -- ��A New Field of Labor��: Antislavery Women, Freedmen�s Aid, and Political Power €?�Objects of Humanity��: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction GeorgiaRacial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleans�s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation -- ��My Children on the Field��: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause -- Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact -- Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South -- Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index Summary Using case studies, this book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Memory -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Social aspects Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Memory -- Social aspects Social aspects Social conditions SUBJECT Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004000 United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515 Subject Southern States United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Miller, Randall M ISBN 9780823232048 0823232042

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