Author: Stephen Collis Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Hamrick Generations
A Generation at War
Author: Nicole Etcheson
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community--Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction-and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war. Delving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century's bellwether states, A Generation at War considers the Civil War within a much broader chronological context than other accounts. It ranges across three decades to show how the issues of the day-particularly race and sectionalism-temporarily displaced economic and temperance concerns, how the racial attitudes of northern whites changed, and how a generation of young men and women coped with the transformative experience of war. Etcheson interrelates an impressively wide range of topics. Through temperance and alcohol she illustrates nativism and class consciousness, while through an account of a murder she probes ethnicity, politics, and gender. She reveals how some women wanted to "maintain dependence" and how the war gave independence to others, as pensions allowed them to survive without a male provider. And she chronicles the major shift in race relations as the most revolutionary change: blacks had been excluded from Indiana in the 1850s but were invited into Putnam County by 1880. Etcheson personalizes all of these issues through human stories, bringing to life people previously ignored by history, whether veterans demanding recognition of their sacrifice, women speaking out against liquor, or Copperheads parading against Republicans. The introduction of race with the North Carolina Exodusters marks a particularly effective lens for seeing how the idealism unleashed by Lincoln's war influenced the North. Etcheson also helps us understand how white Southerners tried to reunify the country on the basis of shared white racism. Drawing on personal papers, local newspapers, pension petitions, Exoduster pamphlets, and more, Etcheson demonstrates how microhistory helps give new meaning to larger events. A Generation at War opens a new window on the impact of the Civil War on the agrarian North.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community--Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction-and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war. Delving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century's bellwether states, A Generation at War considers the Civil War within a much broader chronological context than other accounts. It ranges across three decades to show how the issues of the day-particularly race and sectionalism-temporarily displaced economic and temperance concerns, how the racial attitudes of northern whites changed, and how a generation of young men and women coped with the transformative experience of war. Etcheson interrelates an impressively wide range of topics. Through temperance and alcohol she illustrates nativism and class consciousness, while through an account of a murder she probes ethnicity, politics, and gender. She reveals how some women wanted to "maintain dependence" and how the war gave independence to others, as pensions allowed them to survive without a male provider. And she chronicles the major shift in race relations as the most revolutionary change: blacks had been excluded from Indiana in the 1850s but were invited into Putnam County by 1880. Etcheson personalizes all of these issues through human stories, bringing to life people previously ignored by history, whether veterans demanding recognition of their sacrifice, women speaking out against liquor, or Copperheads parading against Republicans. The introduction of race with the North Carolina Exodusters marks a particularly effective lens for seeing how the idealism unleashed by Lincoln's war influenced the North. Etcheson also helps us understand how white Southerners tried to reunify the country on the basis of shared white racism. Drawing on personal papers, local newspapers, pension petitions, Exoduster pamphlets, and more, Etcheson demonstrates how microhistory helps give new meaning to larger events. A Generation at War opens a new window on the impact of the Civil War on the agrarian North.
The United States Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
Book Description
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. : Magna Carta Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Second supplement to original 2 vol. set.
Publisher: Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. : Magna Carta Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Second supplement to original 2 vol. set.
Writings on American History
Author:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Hemrick and Allied Families (Germany to Georgia), 1727-1974
Author: Grace H. Jarvis
Publisher:
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Davis Diggings
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description